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Re: what are some example case of files needing newline at end?
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Andy Stewart |
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Re: what are some example case of files needing newline at end? |
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Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:49:29 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Xah,
I think crontab file need newline at end of file.
If have not newline at end of crontab file.
crontab can't work.
-- Andy
Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:
> what are some examples of files that requires a newline by itself at
> the end?
>
> Detail:
>
> recently i'm coding elisp to process a input file line by line. Each
> line is expected to have text.
> I ran into error at the last line because the file has a empty line,
> and i noticed that it is automatically added, due to mode-require-
> final-newline being true.
>
> So, i'm wondering, what kinda files actually require newline at the
> end? and if it is still so today?
>
> Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄