Re: Box cursor at EoL

[Colin Baxter]

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

    > Colin Baxter [mailto:m43cap@yandex.com] wrote:
    >> Anders Munch <ajm@flonidan.dk> writes:
    >>> 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"?

    > It's a POSIX thing.
    > 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/729692/why-should-text-files-end-with-a-newline
    > And there's a potential issue with C include files.

That's interesting. I have learnt something. Thank you.

Colin.