[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57861] GUI editor should save text files with an implied final newline character

[Mike Miller]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57861>

                 Summary: GUI editor should save text files with an implied
final newline character
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: mtmiller
            Submitted on: Wed 19 Feb 2020 12:54:35 PM PST
                Category: GUI
                Severity: 1 - Wish
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: dev
         Discussion Lock: Any
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

Unix files are line oriented, and it's expected that every line ends in a
newline character. The last byte of every file should be a newline character.

The GUI editor does not follow this standard, and instead only writes newline
characters when a line is followed by another line.

The standard Unix file behavior can only be achieved currently by pressing an
extra Enter at the end of the file to insert a fake extra line at the end.

The editor should always write a newline at the end of files when saving, or
at the very least offer a setting to choose the behavior, with the default
being the standard to end files with newlines.

This would help new contributors edit and write m-file functions for
submission to Octave, since this is part of our coding style guide.




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