Oh yes, now empty files have also become an unknown concept. To create
one, or empty out an existing file, you have to instead open a shell and
do something like echo -n file. This is indeed most annoying!
And why (see #8) should a deficiency in an entirely different program on
Red Hat affect
Another reason why the behaviour in the previous LTS 6.06 was
appropriate and the vi-style behaviour in the current LTS 8.04 not:
consistency. If I have a number of lines and want to move one, I select
it by dragging from the beginning of the line to the beginning of the
next line, cut, and then
I have reraised this issue because this disturbing misfeature has always
bugged me no end with vi. The appropriate behaviour is to let the user
confirm that the file has no final newline, with a checkbox to always
silently add one (which I will most definitely never use!), and a
preferences
