As I see it, the rationale for turning on require-final-newline is that a particular type of file should always end in a newline. The user should type RET himself, but in case he forgets to do so, Emacs does it for him. So (newline) should be used.
That is true. But those kinds of files are in special formats, not human-language text. What is the motive for setting use-hard-newlines in one of those buffers? The specific problem I am trying to solve is with Longlines mode (which is not part of Emacs.) It is, in principle, impossible for Longlines to distinguish between the soft newline inserted by require-final-newline and the soft newline inserted by filling when performing automatic line wrapping. "Automatic line wrapping" is not a normal Emacs term, and I am not sure what you mean by it. Do you mean Auto Fill mode? If so, longlines can distinguish the two cases because the newline inserted by Auto Fill mode is not at the end of the line. If it means something else, could you please say what? _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel