I came across this bug while trying to understand bash. If I do $ printf "%s$IFS" > out.txt
and look at out.txt in gedit, I am quite unaware that $IFS has the newline character as its last character, because gedit thinks "aha, this file already has a newline character as its last character, so I needn't display it". Just to be sure I opened out.txt in hexedit before opening it in gedit. I believe policy should be divorced from mechanism - if I want a newline I should be able to add it myself; and have gedit show whether it's there or not. Incidentally, in <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625955> Jesse van den Kieboom has provided a patch, but I'm not enough of a linux guru to know how to apply it, and I don't see an entry for it in gconf-editor. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379367 Title: Gedit adding a newline at the end of file should be configurable Status in Light-Weight Text Editor for Gnome: New Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: gedit Ggedit auto adds a newline at the end of file.I hope it can be configurable. I'm not a c/c++ developer, i'm php developer. but I use gedit for my php developing. Gedit auto adds a new line at the end of file, which will cause a problem when the program runs. I hope this action can be configurable. thanks~! ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit Package: gedit 2.24.2-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gedit Uname: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/379367/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
