<p>Seems fair, the new line at end of file is, I believe, to satisfy the C requirement (from the standard, my emphasis) "A source file that is <strong>not empty</strong> shall end in a new-line character".  That doesn't prevent a file containing just a newline of course.</p>
<p>Yes it prevents creating empty files.</p>
<p>Then again creating empty files with Geany isn't much of a use of its facilities :)  Which is probably why it hasn't bothered anybody to date.</p>

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