[Geany-devel] "Ensure new line on file end" inserts new line when file is empty

Eugene Arshinov earshinov at xxxxx
Sat Oct 16 08:52:51 UTC 2010


On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:49:27 +1100%
Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Eugene,
> 
> I'm not sure it is a bug, the pref setting is there is to ensure that
> the file ends in a newline, so an empty file will become just a new
> line (see od below).  Thats working correctly AFAICT.
> 
> lex at fred5 ~ $ od untitled
> 0000000 000012
> 0000001
> 
> Cheers
> Lex
> 

Hi.

Yes, of course it's logical that newline is always added, even for
empty files.  But it becomes that for non-empty files you get one empty
line at the end, for empty files -- two empty lines.  It's not quite
useful and (IMHO) bad.

Best regards,
Eugene.



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