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The Haskell-Scriptable Editor
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yi does not insert a newline on save #1104

Open chessai opened 5 years ago

chessai commented 5 years ago

this is a pretty common feature of text editors, it makes sure that a lot of common tools such as cat behave properly. I know i can configure this myself, but i feel like this should probably be the default.

Fuuzetsu commented 5 years ago

Is it a default on any editor? Pretty sure emacs doesn't do this unless you set it up.

chessai commented 5 years ago

On vim, yes afaiaa

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Is it a default on any editor? Pretty sure emacs doesn't do this unless you set it up.

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kirelagin commented 5 years ago

According to POSIX, a text file is “a file that contains characters organized into zero or more lines. <...>” and a line is “a sequence of zero or more non- \<newline> characters plus a terminating \<newline> character.”

Thus, the reason many (most?) text editors (at least, traditionally, on UNIX, but not so much on Windows) always make sure that the file they save ends with a newline, is that otherwise it would not qualify as a text file.