On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:15:41PM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> To be honest, I am not sure that this is the right solution.  For some 
> operations in org-mode, like structure editing, that final newline is 
> good to have.  Also, this issue with the final newline is depending on 
> personal preferences.
> 
> I tend to believe that the better solution is to fix outlining, so that 
> it will never hide empty lines at the end of the buffer.  Hope you can 
> agree if I implement that latter solution.

Certainly.  Now you point it out, I agree that is the "more correct"
change to make.

> On May 21, 2007, at 4:03, Trent Buck wrote:
> 
> >[Please CC replies; I'm not subscribed to this list.]
> >
> >I have the following in my .emacs:
> >
> >  | ;;; If the last line is an item and you have a final newline,
> >  | ;;; collapsing item bodies will result in
> >  | ;;;
> >  | ;;;     ** eat marshmallows...
> >  | ;;;
> >  | ;;; where the ellipsis is simply eliding the final newline.  This
> >  | ;;; annoys me.  Rather than fix org mode, I've opted to simply
> >  | ;;; disable implicit adding of a final newline for this mode.
> >  | (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
> >  |   (lambda ()
> >  |     (set (make-local-variable 'require-final-newline) nil)))
> >
> >It would be better if org mode did this automatically.  There is
> >a facility specifically for this:
> >
> >  | mode-require-final-newline is a variable defined in `files.el'.
> >  |
> >  | Documentation:
> >  | Whether to add a newline at end of file, in certain major modes.
> >  | Those modes set `require-final-newline' to this value when you 
> >enable them.
> >  | They do so because they are often used for files that are supposed
> >  | to end in newlines, and the question is how to arrange that.
> >  |
> >  | A value of t means do this only when the file is about to be saved.
> >  | A value of `visit' means do this right after the file is visited.
> >  | A value of `visit-save' means do it at both of those times.
> >  | Any other non-nil value means ask user whether to add a newline, 
> >when saving.
> >  |
> >  | nil means do not add newlines.  That is a risky choice in this 
> >variable
> >  | since this value is used for modes for files that ought to have 
> >final newlines.
> >  | So if you set this to nil, you must explicitly check and add
> >  | a final newline, whenever you save a file that really needs one.
> >
> >I posit that org-mode should set this variable to nil.

-- 
Trent Buck