OM> I know this behaviour form every Unix system I've worked on. Besides, OM> the nice thing about the current way of doing things is that you can OM> read a script form a pipe and have the desired behaviour without any OM> special case code.
This behavior has any advantages for regular files ? Compatibility ? If so, do any editor has option to safe editing for this case ? (of course, I always can do editor wraparound).