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Re: what are some example case of files needing newline at end?


From: Jean-Marc Bourguet
Subject: Re: what are some example case of files needing newline at end?
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:55:33 +0100

Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

> what are some examples of files that requires a newline by itself at
> the end?

Under Posix, the newline is a line *terminator* not a line *separator*, so
a Posix text file must be terminated by a newline.

> recently i'm coding elisp to process a input file line by line. Each
> line is expected to have text.
> I ran into error at the last line because the file has a empty line,
> and i noticed that it is automatically added, due to mode-require-
> final-newline being true.

A file terminated by an empty line will have two newlines at its end under
Posix.

Yours,

-- 
Jean-Marc


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