Hi.

It seems that meld doesn't recognise differences in end-of-line markers (i.e. CRLF vs. LF, etc.).

This can especially be critical, as there are files with mixed end-of-line markers, i.e. both, CRLF and LF.
meld will not notice these, but for other programs the semantics of the file might be completely different, e.g. when it detects the file to be CRLF (possibly based on the first few lines),... they might take single LFs in the middle as a "literal" character. (*)

Per default it should, and this should only be optionally ignorable.


With respect to adding an option that makes end-of-line marker differences ignorable,... there need to be two options (because of (*) above):
- one that ignores CRLF/LF differences only on a global base, i.e. only when _ALL_(!) occurrences of the EOL marker of the left file are replaced by the _SAME_(!) other EOL marker on the right file.... these diffs should be ignored.

- another that ignores any CRLF/LF differences,...

These two options resemble the what I told above about "mixed" EOL markers in the same file.


Cheers,
Chris.