From: "Trent Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: require-final-newline
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 01:20:20 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070523152020.GA13939@baal.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31008adb289123cb43d3677063adaa58@science.uva.nl>
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On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:15:41PM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> To be honest, I am not sure that this is the right solution. For some
> operations in org-mode, like structure editing, that final newline is
> good to have. Also, this issue with the final newline is depending on
> personal preferences.
>
> I tend to believe that the better solution is to fix outlining, so that
> it will never hide empty lines at the end of the buffer. Hope you can
> agree if I implement that latter solution.
Certainly. Now you point it out, I agree that is the "more correct"
change to make.
> On May 21, 2007, at 4:03, Trent Buck wrote:
>
> >[Please CC replies; I'm not subscribed to this list.]
> >
> >I have the following in my .emacs:
> >
> > | ;;; If the last line is an item and you have a final newline,
> > | ;;; collapsing item bodies will result in
> > | ;;;
> > | ;;; ** eat marshmallows...
> > | ;;;
> > | ;;; where the ellipsis is simply eliding the final newline. This
> > | ;;; annoys me. Rather than fix org mode, I've opted to simply
> > | ;;; disable implicit adding of a final newline for this mode.
> > | (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
> > | (lambda ()
> > | (set (make-local-variable 'require-final-newline) nil)))
> >
> >It would be better if org mode did this automatically. There is
> >a facility specifically for this:
> >
> > | mode-require-final-newline is a variable defined in `files.el'.
> > |
> > | Documentation:
> > | Whether to add a newline at end of file, in certain major modes.
> > | Those modes set `require-final-newline' to this value when you
> >enable them.
> > | They do so because they are often used for files that are supposed
> > | to end in newlines, and the question is how to arrange that.
> > |
> > | A value of t means do this only when the file is about to be saved.
> > | A value of `visit' means do this right after the file is visited.
> > | A value of `visit-save' means do it at both of those times.
> > | Any other non-nil value means ask user whether to add a newline,
> >when saving.
> > |
> > | nil means do not add newlines. That is a risky choice in this
> >variable
> > | since this value is used for modes for files that ought to have
> >final newlines.
> > | So if you set this to nil, you must explicitly check and add
> > | a final newline, whenever you save a file that really needs one.
> >
> >I posit that org-mode should set this variable to nil.
--
Trent Buck
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-21 2:03 require-final-newline Trent Buck
2007-05-22 7:34 ` require-final-newline Carsten Dominik
2007-05-23 9:18 ` require-final-newline Trent Buck
2007-05-23 14:15 ` require-final-newline Carsten Dominik
2007-05-23 15:20 ` Trent Buck [this message]
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2005-03-05 19:53 require-final-newline Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-06 19:10 ` require-final-newline Richard Stallman
2005-03-07 1:29 ` require-final-newline Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-07 1:41 ` require-final-newline Stefan Monnier
2005-03-08 2:51 ` require-final-newline Richard Stallman
2005-03-07 1:41 ` require-final-newline Luc Teirlinck
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