Hi John,
> You said "non-text files", so I assumed you were talking about binary
> formats.
Unix, and POSIX, define a text file as zero or more lines of zero or
more characters, each terminated by LF. If it's not text then it's
binary. ;-)
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Cheers, Ralph.
> 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 t
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).
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*> Thus its trait of littering non-text files around> on Unix due to the
last line not ending in ASCII LF.*
What do you mean? I've never seen Emacs do this (unless you mean those
lockfile symlinks it creates whilst editing a file).
*> Emacs wasn't either.*
Well, we all know GNU's Not Unix. ;-)
Hi Steve,
> And can anyone tell me why Donald Knuth did not design TeX this way?
> This has always puzzled me and is the main reason I rarely use it.
TeX was not developed on Unix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#History
To this day it seems a poor fit.
Emacs wasn't either. Thus its trait of
