Re: cc-mode adds newlines

[David Kastrup]

Andries Brouwer <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 09:53:07PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
>
>> > in their .emacs. And thousands of others were bitten.
>> 
>> There's the difference, of course -- there probably aren't more
>> than a handful of people who object to Emacs making sure their .c
>> files end in a newline, and I expect their are far more people who
>> _like_ the feature.  Emacs defaults are intended to be useful for
>> the majority.
>
> Aha. So you left your previous sidetrack and now come to a new
> possible objection, namely the one that having a
> c-require-final-newline different from require-final-newline is
> useful for the majority.  Is that really what you believe?

For what it's worth, that is what I believe.  And obviously it is what
the people responsible for the current behavior believe.  Emacs is not
written by lunatics randomly changing code and seeing whether people
complain, even though you seem to have that impression.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum