Detecting line endings

[Sybren Stuvel]

Fuzzyman enlightened us with:
> My worry is that if '\n' *doesn't* signify a line break on the Mac,
> then it may exist in the body of the text - and trigger ``ending =
> '\n'`` prematurely ?

I'd count the number of occurences of '\r\n', '\n' without a preceding
'\r' and '\r' without following '\n', and let the majority decide.

Sybren
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