[bug #16452] mcedit forgets POSIX newline at end of file

[Oswald Buddenhagen <INVALID NOREPLY gnu org>]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #16452 (project mc):

nothing in the quoted paragraph suggests that a newline has to be present.
there are two philosophies regarding newlines: newlines as line terminators
(requires newline) and newlines as line breaks (separators - no newline
required).
personally, i also lean towards line termination. however, so far mcedit
follows a "don't do anything not explicitly requested" philosophy (autoindent
being the exception) - not necessarily by design, but because it is simpler to
implement. but i'd argue that the "explicit" mode is a good default choice
anyway.

as far as dos newlines are concerned, i repeatedly found it annoying that
mcedit can't deal with them (displaying ^M does not count ;). i think it
should handle them transparently - and *possibly* offer a conversion option.


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