On Wednesday 13 September 2006 11:25, Andy Greenwood wrote: > I need a CLI text editor I can use over ssh, which does NOT append > newlines to the end of files as I save them. I am using this to edit > PHP files, and my PHP doesn't like newlines outside the last ?>. ee > and vi both do so, I tried nano which also does the same. I haven't > installed emacs to try that yet, since the man page says that it also > does the same thing. Does anyone have any ideas?
"vim -b brokenfile.php" should work. Note that something is seriously broken with PHP, though, if it can't process text files in the standard format. > Another question: Why do so many text editors have this behavior? Because lines end with end-of-line, and the last line isn't magic. Note that almost every text file on your system is this way. Try this: $ cat somefile.txt; echo NEWTEXT If somefile.txt contains "foo", you'd expect to see: foo NEWTEXT However, your broken PHP install insists on files that would result in: fooNEWTEXT which is clearly not the right thing to do. I really don't mean to sound harsh, but the problem really is with PHP and not your text editors. If that was a widespread issue, you'd hear about it all over the place and not just in this one thread. -- Kirk Strauser
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