Problems with CRLF

[Adnan Maolood]

On Thu Nov 5, 2020 at 11:23 AM EST, Arav K. wrote:
> I will check myself, but I don't think most clients would throw up when
> faced with input like this. I thought it's a common way to present
> multi-line input prompts. If it's not, that's also fine, but I don't
> see this being so big of an issue that the spec needs to be changed.
>
> Most 'proper' clients (i.e. not shell scripts) should have absolutely no
> problem dealing with this. Shell scripts will certainly have to be wary
> with assuming it's a single line, but even then, no biggie. Perhaps we
> can provide this as a Gemini torture test (if it isn't already one), as
> I know many clients do check against that.

I was not aware that this was a common thing to do.
If it is, and it is desirable, then I agree that it should be a client
torture test. It could also be mentioned in the specification so that
client authors can be aware.

As a side-note, are clients expected to append a colon to the end of the
input prompt? I have seen some clients do that, and wasn't sure if that
was a standard thing.