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From: yergeau@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dan Yergeau)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: A better EMACS for FreeBSD?
Date: 31 Oct 1994 17:39:28 GMT
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
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In article <3916jdINNe36@bonnie.sax.de>, j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

|> And i've never seen a ``line too long'' or ``missing newline appended''
|> there ... :-)

Oh, there was at least one time I would have preferred to see the
``missing newline appended'' message.  Back when I was still pretty
green on a Unix system (Alliant, RIP), I edited my .cshrc file with
emacs.  Being an uninitiated Unix user, I logged out (stupid,
stupid, stupid!) and tried to log back in.  Imagine my suprise when
I immediately got bumped out to the login prompt.  After contacting
the SA, who moved the offending file out of the way, I logged back
in and started investigating the problem.  5 or 10 minutes later I
discovered that it was because csh wasn't very happy with files that
lacked a newline at the end of the last line, and emacs didn't add
that newline by default.

Well, my .emacs file is now 422 lines, and one of them is

  (setq require-final-newline t)


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