On 12 August 2015 at 15:47, <[email protected]> wrote: > You can't write a file in vi that does not end in a newline.
You, however, can do it pretty easily with cat. (Sam asks you if you mean it, acme just does it.) > So, I vote that text handling utilities should deal with all lines in > text files uniformly,even the last one. I encountered the problem when I selected a couple of words in acme which I wanted to bracket with sed with something like | sed 's/^/</' | sed 's/$/>/' and suddenly you see... On the other hand, as you say, it's a matter of taste. (If the behaviour is not prescribed.) R Sykora
