Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:52:46 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CLI text editor recommendation Message-ID: <200609131152.50652.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <3ee9ca710609130925i415eca35v483f6ee5421e1125@mail.gmail.com> References: <3ee9ca710609130925i415eca35v483f6ee5421e1125@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart1439204.digm1YKR7l Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 brok= en=20 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 th= at=20 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=20 harsh, but the problem really is with PHP and not your text editors. If th= at=20 was a widespread issue, you'd hear about it all over the place and not just= =20 in this one thread. =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser --nextPart1439204.digm1YKR7l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFCDdi5sRg+Y0CpvERArGdAJwMBHiCmoaVLwfa9hbF5qxHY/4plQCgpaov S+/KgOxm1ZpFxksMBjFJh7A= =kD2n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1439204.digm1YKR7l--
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