Re: Buffered input for a lexer?

Hi Clayton,


> > And just incidentally, I have *LOTS* of text files (including
> > source code) on my system that don't end with a newline character.
> > It's not rare at all.
>
> I noticed patch (2.5 IIRC) complaining about something like this when
> I hand-modified a big glibc patch to only get the parts that I
> needed. I clipped one patch just before instead of just after the
> last newline in it, and patch howled about a partial line at the end
> of the patch. [snip]
>
> I've recently seen something else complain about a source file of
> some kind that wasn't terminated by a newline, but I don't
> immediately remember what it was (perl?). [snip]


Unix text files have always had lines *terminated*, not separated,
with newlines, e.g. ASCII character 10.


AFAIK it wasn't until EMACS showed its face that Unix text files
started appearing with an unterminated final `line'.


What editor do you use?


> I actually think it would make sense if an editor's language mode
> just did it automatically (terminate all saved source files with a
> single end-of-line in the native syntax of the host system when you
> save the file).


EMACS does have some option or other to always terminate the last line.
It's a shame it isn't on by default.


Cheers,


Ralph.

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