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Date:      Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:25:33 -0400
From:      "Andy Greenwood" <greenwood.andy@gmail.com>
To:        "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   CLI text editor recommendation
Message-ID:  <3ee9ca710609130925i415eca35v483f6ee5421e1125@mail.gmail.com>

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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?

Another question: Why do so many text editors have this behavior?
Should a text editor really add text that I don't tell it to add to my
file? It seems that there must be some reason.



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