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bug#49193: Document require-final-newline vs. readonly files
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#49193: Document require-final-newline vs. readonly files |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Jun 2021 09:07:31 +0300 |
> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org
> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 00:08:34 +0200
>
> | If the value is ‘visit’, Emacs adds a newline at the end of any file
> | that doesn’t have one, just after it visits the file...
>
> But that's not true, is it? The file is not touched. Is the newline
> still added to the file's buffer? Or not even that (because the buffer
> is read-only)?
>
> Would
>
> | [...] Emacs adds a newline at the end of any file's buffer that
> | doesn’t have one, just after it visits the file...
>
> be clearer?
Depends on the beholder, I guess. Many newbies don't understand the
fine difference, and have trouble with the idea that Emacs doesn't
generally manipulate files for editing.