Re: [BUG] No newline at end of exported HTML file [9.6.6 (release_9.6.6 @ /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/org/)]

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Bruno Barbier <brubar.cs@gmail.com> writes:

> The change seems to come from this commit:
>
>    commit d7a55bbd537314d2776b082bd92a1a08b3edc84e
>    Date:   Wed Sep 28 12:07:14 2022 +0800
>    org-latex-export-to-latex: Do not suppress major modes in babel
>
> It replaces 'write-file' with 'write-region', but, according to the
> documentation of 'require-final-newline', 'write-region' ignores
> 'require-final-newline'.

Thanks for narrowing down the cause!
We indeed cannot revert the commit - the change was made for a reason.

> See attached diff that reverts the problematic change.
>
> In summary, before this commit, Emacs was fixing exported text files
> (HTML, markdown, etc.) for free, adding a newline if needed for text
> files.  It's not anymore.  I'm not sure what would be the best way to
> fix this though.

I do not think that we need to honour `require-final-newline' during
export - this was (1) not documented; (2) caused inconsistency when
exporting with different user configs.

However, we indeed changed the existing behaviour.

AFAIU, `require-final-newline' is t by default, except binary data.
Also, Org export is not designed to generate binary output.
So, it should be OK to ensure the final newline manually, in
`org-export-to-file' - to minimize possible breakage.

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