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Bug 422779

Summary:	[editor] editor shows extra blank line at the end of files
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Anthony Hunter <ahunter.eclipse>
Component:	Editor	Assignee:	Project Inbox <orion.editor-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	Silenio_Quarti
Version:	5.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Anthony Hunter

2013-11-28 11:01:10 EST

Open an editor on a file with 8 lines. The editor shows a blank line 9.

When you enter text on line 9, Orion does not save a line ending (\n) on this line.

Comment 1 Silenio Quarti

2013-11-28 17:08:37 EST

If the last character on a file is a line delimiter, the editor is supposed to have a blank line at the end. There are editors that do not show that blank line (i.e vi and maybe emacs), but most editors (notepad, wordpad, Mac TextEdit, gedit, eclipse) have the same behavior as the orion editor.

Comment 2 Anthony Hunter

2013-11-28 18:00:56 EST

Agreed this appears to be a Linux thing when editing files using VI and getting 

When an input file ends in a non-newline character, its last line is called an "incomplete line" because its last character is not a newline.  All other lines are called "full lines" and end in a newline character.