Re: [groff] groff and pipes

[John Gardner]

> Creating a new file in Emacs with a line of ‘hello world!’ would create
> a file that did not end in a linefeed.

Oh, that's what you meant. You said "non-text files", so I assumed you were
talking about binary formats.

> You weird quoting is broken; see `around>'.

Yikes. Okay, I know now not to italicise quotes in Gmail... :-) Thanks!

On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 at 23:39, Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> > *> Thus its trait of littering non-text files around> on Unix due to the
> > last line not ending in ASCII LF.*
>
> You weird quoting is broken; see `around>'.
>
> > What do you mean? I've never seen Emacs do this (unless you mean those
> > lockfile symlinks it creates whilst editing a file).
>
> Creating a new file in Emacs with a line of ‘hello world!’ would create
> a file that did not end in a linefeed.  Emacs believes LF separates
> lines, whereas Unix and POSIX think LF terminates lines.
>
> Unix programs would handle these files in different ways, including
> silently ignoring the incomplete final line.  One would find the
> miscreant Emacs user and tell them to setq; they weren't on ITS now.
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Customize-Save.html
>
> > *> Emacs wasn't either.*
> >
> > Well, we all know GNU's Not Unix. ;-)
>
> ITS certaintly wasn't.
>
> --
> Cheers, Ralph.
>
>