[14499] in Athena Bugs
Re: Athena v8.0 emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Mumpower)
Sun Aug 4 23:39:23 1996
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 23:39:20 -0400
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199608050234.WAA17827@planet-zorp.MIT.EDU>
From: Eric Mumpower <nocturne@MIT.EDU>
> nil is the default value in emacs as shipped.
I didn't realize this. Oops. Knowing that the "bug" of which I complain is a
standard setting in emacs as shipped, I'd like to retract most of my
previous complaints. :-)
> Yes, it's a change from earlier versions of emacs on Athena, but I
> don't think it's noticeable enough to matter.
I do think this is likely to be noticeable for people creating files in
which a final newline is required. (My original bug report was prompted by
my having helped a user on instance help, where the shell script he was
writing didn't work properly because his script had no final newline.)
(Shell scripts and possibly Makefiles come to mind as examples of things
which seem to care about final newlines.)
However, I don't think this is critical enough that I'd argue it be added to
the growing set of things which must be kept track of by the Release
Engineers as details of local software-configuration.
- Eric
