Re: [Nano-devel] Trailing returns

[Nick Warne]

On Wednesday 18 April 2007 18:47:10 Marcus Bointon wrote:
> On quite a few occasions I've found the automatic addition of
> trailing returns to text files in nano to be a real pain. I found
> this message in the archives on the subject:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-nano/2005-10/msg00009.html
>
> Can someone tell me why this is the default behaviour? I've googled
> for a reason but have not found one. Other editors I use don't do
> this, and I'd really prefer not to have to resort to futzing with sed
> to work around it.
>
> Otherwise, is this the right place to request it as a (switchable)
> feature? Or did I miss it?
>
> Apart from that, thanks for my favourite CLI editor...

Interesting - I totally agree with the above, but have never thought about it 
too much, but it does gall me sometimes why this is the behaviour.

So I endorse and would also like to know/see how to suppress this.

Interestingly it doesn't do it on a blank file.

Nick