Re: Box cursor at EoL

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> Anders Munch <ajm@flonidan.dk> writes:

    > Emanuel Berg wrote:
    >> Kenneth Goldman wrote:
    >>> In many open source communities, a change that affects white
    >>> space would be discouraged or rejected.
    >> 
    >> Yes, but that's from the perspective of their systems that would
    >> denote such changes as ... changes, right? So if they are annoyed
    >> by that, they should change their own systems that report that
    >> ...

    > I prefer an editor that doesn't change my files unless I ask it
    > to.

    > Emacs does a very good job of that.  One problem I've encountered
    > is the default setting of require-final-newline.  That caused me
    > some trouble, until I figured out to switch it off.

I too switch off require-final-newline, but I seem to remember reading
somewhere that text files should end with a new line. I do not know
whether this was to do with style or something more significant. Does
anyone else know of this "requirement"?

Best wishes,

Colin.