> Creating a new file in Emacs with a line of ‘hello world!’ would create > a file that did not end in a linefeed.
Oh, that's what you meant. You said "non-text files", so I assumed you were talking about binary formats. > You weird quoting is broken; see `around>'. Yikes. Okay, I know now not to italicise quotes in Gmail... :-) Thanks! On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 at 23:39, Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote: > Hi John, > > > *> Thus its trait of littering non-text files around> on Unix due to the > > last line not ending in ASCII LF.* > > You weird quoting is broken; see `around>'. > > > What do you mean? I've never seen Emacs do this (unless you mean those > > lockfile symlinks it creates whilst editing a file). > > Creating a new file in Emacs with a line of ‘hello world!’ would create > a file that did not end in a linefeed. Emacs believes LF separates > lines, whereas Unix and POSIX think LF terminates lines. > > Unix programs would handle these files in different ways, including > silently ignoring the incomplete final line. One would find the > miscreant Emacs user and tell them to setq; they weren't on ITS now. > > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Customize-Save.html > > > *> Emacs wasn't either.* > > > > Well, we all know GNU's Not Unix. ;-) > > ITS certaintly wasn't. > > -- > Cheers, Ralph. > >
