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Re: Delete trailing CR?
From: |
Dave U . Random |
Subject: |
Re: Delete trailing CR? |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Nov 2012 17:33:30 +0100 (CET) |
Hi Barry,
> In article <mailman.12153.1351870877.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
> Anonymous <nobody@slug.slugish.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi. In Emacs how do I edit a file without Emacs adding a 0a byte to the end?
> > And how do I delete that character if it is already in the file?
> > M-x delete-trailing-whitespace leaves this character at the end of the file.
> > Thank you.
>
> That's not a CR (CR is 0d), it's an LF, i.e. newline. The variable you
> want to customize is require-final-newline.
Thanks alot on both counts!
> But why would you want to remove it? Text files should be a sequence of
> lines, and each line should end with a newline. Some programs don't
> process the last line correctly if it doesn't end with a newline.
I was working on test data and I needed to check files of certain
lengths. Before I read your reply I accomplished it by using hexl-mode and
changing the last character to data.
Thanks for the info for future use!
Chuck