Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:20:41 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Cc: Andy Greenwood <greenwood.andy@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CLI text editor recommendation Message-ID: <20060914052041.GB76681@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <45083690.80904@dial.pipex.com> References: <3ee9ca710609130925i415eca35v483f6ee5421e1125@mail.gmail.com> <45083690.80904@dial.pipex.com>
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On 2006-09-13 17:49, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>Andy Greenwood wrote:
>> I need a CLI text editor I can use over ssh, which does NOT append
>> newlines to the end of files as I save them. I am using this to edit
>> PHP files, and my PHP doesn't like newlines outside the last ?>. ee
>> and vi both do so, I tried nano which also does the same. I haven't
>> installed emacs to try that yet, since the man page says that it also
>> does the same thing. Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Emacs most certainly can save files without newlines. I don't see any
> option in my .emacs to force this behaviour so assume it works out of
> the box, nor can I find any reference in the man page which says it
> does add newlines.
FWIW, try looking at the documentation of `require-final-newline':
C-h v require-final-newline RET
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