[Geany-Users] Bash Script Line Endings - Convert to LF for Unix Automatically When Detected?

[Matthew Brush]

On 2016-12-06 05:15 PM, OwN-3m-All wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Would it be possible for Geany to automatically set the line endings
> to LF for Unix when working with bash scripts?  I would suggest that
> if a file is detected as a bash script, the line ending setting should
> be automatically changed to LF.  Also, if the extension is .sh, I
> would also like the line ending mode to be set to LF automatically.
>
> I have been burned so many times since I sometimes write my scripts in
> Windows depending on which computer I am using.  Since bash scripts do
> not run on Windows, they should probably always be converted to LF
> line endings.
>

Are you sure Bash for Windows[0][1][2][3] doesn't support CRLF line endings?

It might be better to do this as a Geany (or GeanyPy) plugin.

Regards,
Matthew Brush

[0]: https://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20introduction/
[1]: https://www.cygwin.com/
[2]: https://git-for-windows.github.io/
[3]: 
http://www.windowscentral.com/how-install-bash-shell-command-line-windows-10