Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:49:20 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Andy Greenwood <greenwood.andy@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CLI text editor recommendation Message-ID: <45083690.80904@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <3ee9ca710609130925i415eca35v483f6ee5421e1125@mail.gmail.com> References: <3ee9ca710609130925i415eca35v483f6ee5421e1125@mail.gmail.com>
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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? Emacs most certainly can save files without newlines. I don't see any option in my .emacs to force this behaviour so assume it works out of the box, nor can I find any reference in the man page which says it does add newlines. OTOH, emacs may be overkill if you don't already use it. I would have thought vi would have an option to stop this happening, but don't see one. I'm surprised at PHP barfing on "extra" newlines, but then I've never used it. --Alex
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