Re: Highlighting a missing final newline?

[Óscar Fuentes]

egarrulo <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:

> How would you highlight a missing final newline?  I mean: if a buffer
> lacks a final newline, then you would see a (customizable) character
> at the end of the buffer; otherwise, you would see nothing.
>
> AFAIK, `font-lock-add-keywords' can't help here because there is no
> character to highlight.  I have looked into `whitespace-mode' for
> inspiration, but the code is too complex for me.

If your problem consists on editing files that require to end with a
newline, set `require-final-newline' on the mode hook and forget about
that.