Re: [9fans] p9p sed vs linux sed

[Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>]

On 12 August 2015 at 15:47,  <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
> You can't write a file in vi that does not end in a newline.

You, however, can do it pretty easily with cat.
(Sam asks you if you mean it, acme just does it.)

> So, I vote that text handling utilities should deal with all lines in
> text files uniformly,even the last one.

I encountered the problem when I selected a couple of words in acme
which I wanted to bracket with sed with something like

| sed 's/^/</' | sed 's/$/>/'

and suddenly you see...

On the other hand, as you say, it's a matter of taste.
(If the behaviour is not prescribed.)

R Sykora