Re: [Nano-devel] Trailing returns

[Marcus Bointon]

On 18 Apr 2007, at 19:23, John Gabriele wrote:

> On GNU/Linux systems I've never seen a problem that was caused by
> having a newline at the end of a file.

Generally it's not a problem, but just occasionally it is. I have a  
little program that expects a single line of space-separated values.  
The trailing line break makes it think there is an additional empty  
element, so I can't edit the file in nano.

I've also run into it when concating files that I've edited, where  
they should together in the middle of a line - but nano has added an  
extra unwanted line break.

In php scripts, any output after the closing ?> can cause premature  
header sending. I think it actually copes with just a line break, but  
it's the principle.

One reason I thought might be applicable is that when you use  
standard input (e.g. cat>file), the ctrl-d to finish must be on a new  
line, and therefore every file made that way will have a trailing  
return.

Anyway, glad I'm not barking up an entirely unfamiliar tree - any  
chance of a new feature?

Marcus
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