ed: please give me a little control over appending final newlines

[Dan Jacobson]

The ed manual says:
       If a text (non-binary) file is not terminated by a newline
       character,  then ed appends one on reading/writing it.  In
       the case of a binary file, ed does not append a newline on
       reading/writing.

OK, please give me final control of this action thru a command line
switch to override ed's choice if I need to.

Don't just keep the decision behind my back with not even a definition
of just exactly what ed believes are "text (non-binary) files".

And, if it is so smart, why doesn't it know about what happens if you
just add a NL to a CR-LF file?  I wouldn't complain if I had a way to
control ed.
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