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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!news.Stanford.EDU!leland.Stanford.EDU!yergeau From: yergeau@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dan Yergeau) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: A better EMACS for FreeBSD? Date: 31 Oct 1994 17:39:28 GMT Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <393a4g$eqh@nntp.Stanford.EDU> References: <37vv1c$7b3@adam.cc.sunysb.edu> <38447e$aag@nyheter.chalmers.se> <3916jdINNe36@bonnie.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: adelbert11.stanford.edu In article <3916jdINNe36@bonnie.sax.de>, j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: |> And i've never seen a ``line too long'' or ``missing newline appended'' |> there ... :-) Oh, there was at least one time I would have preferred to see the ``missing newline appended'' message. Back when I was still pretty green on a Unix system (Alliant, RIP), I edited my .cshrc file with emacs. Being an uninitiated Unix user, I logged out (stupid, stupid, stupid!) and tried to log back in. Imagine my suprise when I immediately got bumped out to the login prompt. After contacting the SA, who moved the offending file out of the way, I logged back in and started investigating the problem. 5 or 10 minutes later I discovered that it was because csh wasn't very happy with files that lacked a newline at the end of the last line, and emacs didn't add that newline by default. Well, my .emacs file is now 422 lines, and one of them is (setq require-final-newline t) -- Dan Yergeau You are in a twisty little passage yergeau@gloworm.Stanford.EDU of standards, all conflicting. #include <std.disclaimer>