IIRC jchris committed a patch that fixes this behavior (ignoring trailing whitespace) to trunk some time ago.
On 13.09.2010, at 20:01, Noah Slater wrote: > > On 13 Sep 2010, at 18:00, Julian Moritz wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've got a problem with a view: my editors (gedit, nano) add a newline >> to the end of the reduce.py file (with a builtin reduce function), which >> lets couchdb crash. > > According to one reading of the POSIX standards, all text files should be > terminated with a newline character. If this causes a crash, I would say > that's a bug. >
