Re: GNU diff and missing last newline

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Edward Arthur <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 11:26:24 -0400
> 
> I have hacked tkdiff to ignore stderr but I'd rather add on option
> to diff to not print an error when a trailing newline (on the last
> line) is missing.

That's rather a specialized option.  It might be nice to have.  But in
the meantime you could perhaps modify the invoker of 'diff' to detect
this situation, and if it happens, invoke
"(cat file-without-trailing-newline && echo '') | diff file -".
That should work on all versions of "diff".

> Is there any development going on with diff?

Yes; I expect a new test version fairly soon.