From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 49194@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49194: kill-whole-line 'plus-newline-even-if-none-in-reality
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 18:11:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lf6zi6nq.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tuloegsa.5.fsf@jidanni.org> ("積丹尼 Dan Jacobson"'s message of "Wed, 23 Jun 2021 23:34:29 +0800")
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> I hereby propose an additional value, call it one of:
>
> 'always
> 'no-matter-what
> 'plus-newline-even-at-eof
> 'plus-newline-even-if-none-in-reality
>
>> See (info "(emacs) Customize Save") for require-final-newline. Bye.
>
> Wait! Who says I even want the file to end in a newline? I just want
> kill-whole-line to have a setting to consistently get a newline at the
> end, and not 99% of the time.
>
>> Then add a newline there yourself and remove it when you are finished. Bye.
>
> Wait! The file might even be a readonly file owned by someone else. I
> can't just "add one there myself."
>
>> Well then copy the file first. Bye.
>
> Seems like overkill, just to kill (copy) one line.
>
> Anyway 'plus-newline-even-if-none-in-reality etc., being non-nil, would
> also be 99% backwards compatible too!
I'm not quite sure what this essay is trying to express -- are you
asking for a new setting for `kill-whole-line' that deletes the preceding
newline if you call `C-k' at the start of the final line in a buffer,
and that final line doesn't have a newline at the end?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-24 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-23 15:34 bug#49194: kill-whole-line 'plus-newline-even-if-none-in-reality 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-06-24 16:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-06-24 17:59 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-06-24 18:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-24 18:42 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-06-24 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-24 18:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-24 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-24 20:20 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-06-25 6:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-25 14:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-25 14:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-26 17:12 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
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