Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 119141
emacs variable require-final-newline set improperly in default.el
Last modified: 2015-01-07 19:07:38 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030922 Description of problem: In /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/default.el, the following lisp is presumably intended to set a configuration variable. ;; always end a file with a newline (defvar require-final-newline 'query) It doesn't work. Replacing it with the following lisp does work. ;; always end a file with a newline (setq require-final-newline 'query) I haven't tested the other defvar in default.el but imagine it should also use setq. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): emacs-21.3-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start emacs. 2. ^H^Vrequire-final-newline 3. Note setting. Or test file saves to see if Emacs prompts for final newline.
Thanks, will get fixed for now in Fedora Core devel: in emacs-21.3-12.
Any change this could be removed from default.el, or at least wrap in some if-not-already-set logic? Having it in default.el overrides user preferences set via customize. Googling for require-final-newline suggests I'm not the only one who wants it gone. Appart from being really intrusive (I get asked just about every time I save a file), the value you've set potentially means the users will lose data - save a file, don't realise that the save hasn't been done, kill the X session, file lost.
Ralph, ok sounds reasonable - I'll move the definition to a comment in the default .emacs file in the next Fedora Core devel build.