The behaviour of Geany is self consistent, if you move the cursor after the 
newline it goes to the start of the next line.  That means you need to have a 
visual next line after the last line for it to go to.

Also, irrespective of what POSIX says there are situations where files must not 
have a terminating newline (inline includes for example) so there needs to be a 
way of indicating the presence or absence of the last newline.  But its 
impossible for a mere editor to know if its a file with a terminating newline, 
or a file with an empty unterminated last line, so it shows the presence of a 
newline by showing a next line place for the cursor to go.

This is the behaviour of other proper modeless visual editors/IDEs, Mint Text 
Edit (a Gedit clone IIRC) and Eclipse being the two I have at hand and a quick 
peruse of the vscode docs suggests its the same.  


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