From: Kero van Gelder <kero@...4050.upc-d.chello.nl>
Date: 2001-08-07T06:06:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19252] Re: Some remarks from a nembie in Ruby

> You can change some variable( I can't remember just now what it is )
> to do this. My personal preference in the matter seems to be the
> same as yours. One problem that I can think of is that it might hide
> the end-of-file. Perhaps in addition to autochomping they could
> notify us when the end-of-file is reached as well?? I don't think we
> need non-chomping versions. Just flip the variable I mentioned
> previously. Only now it would make the gets's not chomp instead of
> the way it is now.

emacs ruby-mode adds EOL at EOF to ruby-scripts if it is not there :)

Seriously now: how often does it matter that you can see whether the
last line in a file actually was finished with EOL? In text files, not
binary ones, of course.

Bye,
Kero.

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