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Wed Mar 17 11:05:21 1982
CRLF in Emacs
>From BENSON@UTAH-20 Wed Mar 17 10:52:39 1982
I've rebound ^X^S so that it checks to see that the last character in the
buffer is a linefeed. It gives me a warning and doesn't save it if it's
not. If I really need to write a file without a linefeed on the end I use
^X^W. I seem to have stopped using all those programs that throw away the
last line if it's not terminated with a linefeed, though.
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[ Editor's note: In response to the flurry of messages on EOF handling, I
added a similar feature to the Twenex Emacs at SCORE that requires
confirmation when you try to save a file without a CRLF at the end. Such
a site-specific change is easy to add to programmable editors, and is a
very good reason for preferring them over editors that are not programmable.
Also, note that Eric and I implemented slightly different user interfaces;
Emacs provides a good laboratory for comparing user interfaces. /JQJ ]
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