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From: Ben Wing <wing@best.com>
To: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
cc: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu>,
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Subject: Re: 19.15 b4 success and beef
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I agree, make next-line-add-newlines be nil by default.  Principle of
least surprise ...

On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Martin Buchholz wrote:

> >>>>> "Steven" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
> 
> >>>>> "Georg" == Georg Nikodym <georgn@canada.sun.com> writes:
> Georg> ... next-line-add-newlines ...
> 
> Steven> I want to change the default on this variable so bad I can't stand
> Steven> it.  I screamed the first time I found out next-line could modify the
> Steven> buffer :-P, and there was no next-line-add-newlines in those days  ...
> 
> Steven> How many people really like a setting of `t'?
> 
> I agree with Steven.  Let's change the default.  It's an embarrassment
> to the community when silly trailing newlines in a file suggest its
> having once been edited in Emacs.
> 
> To RMS:  Proposal is that next-line-add-newlines default to nil.
> XEmacs will likely make this change in any case, since the maintainers
> hate the default setting.
> 
> I've made this change in my private workspace.
> 
> Martin
> 

