On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Linda W <vim@tlinx.org> wrote:
Tim Chase wrote:---
Take Christian's advice: just put "set binary" in your vimrc and be
done with it. Anything more is just trolling the list.
set binary changes other settings that I don't want changed:
The following options will be ignored:
textwidth, wrapmargin, modeline, expandtab, fileformat, (and fileformats)
I only need this behavior:
When writing a file the <EOL> for the last line is only written if
there was one in the original file (normally Vim appends an <EOL> to
the last line if there is none; this would make the file longer). See
the 'endofline' option.
--- and what I asked for initally (see subject)...
is for the eol setting to be honored regardless of it being in text or binary
mode.
I'd also like to +1 the initial request, but this is a request that has been made, and was subsequently denied, in the past:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_use/clf_u55xrOA/UYLSNoIPELEJ - wherein Bram replied:
"""
Actually, you should normally not set binary to write back what was read.
'endoffile' is the exception, and that's because a decent text file must
end with a LF. Vim fixes that for you (it always has). If other tools
omit that LF you need to fix those tools, not Vim.
'endoffile' is the exception, and that's because a decent text file must
end with a LF. Vim fixes that for you (it always has). If other tools
omit that LF you need to fix those tools, not Vim.
"""
For the poster who suggested VCS's like git: that's the reason I want the 'eol' setting to be respected. If a file is checked into a git repo without the trailing newline, editing the file in Vim causes the newline to be added, which looks like a change, even if 'noeol' is set. I would like Vim to not add anything I'm not intentionally adding. The fact that 'eol' is conditioned on 'binary' simply doesn't make sense.
--
Best,
Ben
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