To be honest, I am not sure that this is the right solution. For some
operations in org-mode, like structure editing, that final newline is
good to have. Also, this issue with the final newline is depending on
personal preferences.
I tend to believe that the better solution is to fix outlining, so that
it will never hide empty lines at the end of the buffer. Hope you can
agree if I implement that latter solution.
- Carsten
On May 21, 2007, at 4:03, Trent Buck wrote:
[Please CC replies; I'm not subscribed to this list.]
I have the following in my .emacs:
| ;;; If the last line is an item and you have a final newline,
| ;;; collapsing item bodies will result in
| ;;;
| ;;; ** eat marshmallows...
| ;;;
| ;;; where the ellipsis is simply eliding the final newline. This
| ;;; annoys me. Rather than fix org mode, I've opted to simply
| ;;; disable implicit adding of a final newline for this mode.
| (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
| (lambda ()
| (set (make-local-variable 'require-final-newline) nil)))
It would be better if org mode did this automatically. There is
a facility specifically for this:
| mode-require-final-newline is a variable defined in `files.el'.
|
| Documentation:
| Whether to add a newline at end of file, in certain major modes.
| Those modes set `require-final-newline' to this value when you
enable them.
| They do so because they are often used for files that are supposed
| to end in newlines, and the question is how to arrange that.
|
| A value of t means do this only when the file is about to be saved.
| A value of `visit' means do this right after the file is visited.
| A value of `visit-save' means do it at both of those times.
| Any other non-nil value means ask user whether to add a newline,
when saving.
|
| nil means do not add newlines. That is a risky choice in this
variable
| since this value is used for modes for files that ought to have
final newlines.
| So if you set this to nil, you must explicitly check and add
| a final newline, whenever you save a file that really needs one.
I posit that org-mode should set this variable to nil.
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