From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Allan Gottlieb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to make emacs *not* add a newline at the end of the file? Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:27:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230755308 3988 80.91.229.12 (31 Dec 2008 20:28:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:28:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 31 21:29:35 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LI7h8-0000Qz-Gs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:29:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44734 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LI7fu-0008WH-Gl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:28:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LI7fb-0008WC-NO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:27:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LI7fY-0008W0-UY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:27:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57485 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LI7fY-0008Vx-OS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:27:56 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu ([128.122.80.33]:61797) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LI7fY-0001Al-6b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:27:56 -0500 Original-Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-4578da1c.dyn.optonline.net [69.120.218.28]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mBVKRsbn017815 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:27:55 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 8522419D921; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:27:49 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Charles Sebold's message of "Wed\, 31 Dec 2008 13\:14\:01 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:61005 Archived-At: At Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:14:01 -0600 Charles Sebold wrote: > On 31 Dec 2008, Juha Nieminen wrote: > >> Another related question: Is there an easy way of making emacs >> visually show the end of the file? (Some other text editors have such >> a feature, eg. by showing a special symbol after the last character in >> the file, and it would be useful.) > > This I don't know off the top of my head. It already does when running under X windows. See the "fringes" info node in the emacs manual. allan