[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Blank extra line displayed for files with terminating newline (#2727)

[elextr]

The behaviour of Geany is self consistent, if you move the cursor after the newline it goes to the start of the next line.  That means you need to have a visual next line after the last line for it to go to.

Also, irrespective of what POSIX says there are situations where files must not have a terminating newline (inline includes for example) so there needs to be a way of indicating the presence or absence of the last newline.  But its impossible for a mere editor to know if its a file with a terminating newline, or a file with an empty unterminated last line, so it shows the presence of a newline by showing a next line place for the cursor to go.

This is the behaviour of other proper modeless visual editors/IDEs, Mint Text Edit (a Gedit clone IIRC) and Eclipse being the two I have at hand and a quick peruse of the vscode docs suggests its the same.  


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