I came across this bug while trying to understand bash. If I do $ printf "%s$IFS" > out.txt
and look at out.txt in gedit, I am quite unaware that $IFS has the newline character as its last character, because gedit thinks "aha, this file already has a newline character as its last character, so I needn't display it". Just to be sure I opened out.txt in hexedit before opening it in gedit. I believe policy should be divorced from mechanism - if I want a newline I should be able to add it myself; and have gedit show whether it's there or not. Incidentally, in <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625955> Jesse van den Kieboom has provided a patch, but I'm not enough of a linux guru to know how to apply it, and I don't see an entry for it in gconf-editor. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379367 Title: Gedit adding a newline at the end of file should be configurable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/379367/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
