From: Niklas Frykholm <niklas@...>
Date: 2001-11-21T08:10:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25958] Re: Why the appended '\n' in IO.readlines

[Josh Huber]
> This is because a lot of unix utilities expect a newline at the end of
> a text file.  Well, I don't know if this is still the case, but it was
> :)
> 
> I usually set require-final-newline to t in emacs because of this.  I
> don't see an option in vi(m) for this however...

To get rid of the final newline you have to do

    :set noeol binary

before writing the file. You would think that it would be enough to set
one of these options, but apparantly not. 

// Niklas