How to make emacs *not* add a newline at the end of the file?
Juha Nieminen
newline at the end of the file if there wasn't one when saving the file.
I don't need this feature, and in a few cases it actually hinders me
(ie. in the few cases where I *really* don't want that newline as the
last character of the file). I have always liked emacs because it
doesn't add any extraneous characters which I haven't specifically told
it to add, like so many other text editors do, which gives me much more
precise control over the contents of the file. This new feature is
consequently a bit annoying.
How can the feature be turned off?
Another related question: Is there an easy way of making emacs
visually show the end of the file? (Some other text editors have such a
feature, eg. by showing a special symbol after the last character in the
file, and it would be useful.)
Charles Sebold
> I don't need this feature, and in a few cases it actually hinders me
> (ie. in the few cases where I *really* don't want that newline as the
> last character of the file). I have always liked emacs because it
> doesn't add any extraneous characters which I haven't specifically
> told it to add, like so many other text editors do, which gives me
> much more precise control over the contents of the file. This new
> feature is consequently a bit annoying.
>
> How can the feature be turned off?
M-x customize-variable RET require-final-newline RET
Also see the value of the variable mode-require-final-newline.
(info "(emacs)Customize Save") has the scoop.
C-h i < m emacs RET m customize save RET
> Another related question: Is there an easy way of making emacs
> visually show the end of the file? (Some other text editors have such
> a feature, eg. by showing a special symbol after the last character in
> the file, and it would be useful.)
This I don't know off the top of my head.
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Charles Sebold 31st of December, 2008
GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) | Gnus v5.11 | org-mode 6.16trans
Teemu Likonen
> Another related question: Is there an easy way of making emacs
> visually show the end of the file? (Some other text editors have such
> a feature, eg. by showing a special symbol after the last character in
> the file, and it would be useful.)
There is an option for showing the first and the last line:
M-x customize-option RET indicate-buffer-boundaries RET
But I don't know about showing the last character. I guess
whitespace-mode would be too noisy for that.
Allan Gottlieb
> On 31 Dec 2008, Juha Nieminen wrote:
>
>> Another related question: Is there an easy way of making emacs
>> visually show the end of the file? (Some other text editors have such
>> a feature, eg. by showing a special symbol after the last character in
>> the file, and it would be useful.)
>
> This I don't know off the top of my head.
It already does when running under X windows. See the "fringes" info
node in the emacs manual.
allan
Juha Nieminen
> Also see the value of the variable mode-require-final-newline.
That did what I wanted. Thanks.
Kevin Rodgers
Just curious: What modes set require-final-newline, and how does that
hinder you?
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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
Juha Nieminen
> Juha Nieminen wrote:
>> Charles Sebold wrote:
>>> Also see the value of the variable mode-require-final-newline.
>>
>> That did what I wanted. Thanks.
>
> Just curious: What modes set require-final-newline, and how does that
> hinder you?
From what I tested, at least editing .txt, .c and .cc files did that.
It hinders me in the few cases where I really *don't* want that
newline at the end. I have always liked emacs exactly because it doesn't
add (or remove) *anything* I don't explicitly instruct it to, no matter
which file I edit. This seems to be more an exception than a rule with
text editors (especially in Windows). I don't need the text editor to
"think for me" in this case.