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By: keithmarshall

Absolute rubbish!

If you use vi (or vim) as your editor, you don't need to see the cursor in a
blank line at the end of your file; when you write the file out from vi, (assuming
you haven't set binary file mode, in vim), you are guaranteed that the last
visible line of text will be properly terminated by a newline -- you don't need
to see a blank line at EOF, (indeed, that would mean that you really *do* have
an extra blank line in the file. Whether or not that line contains additional
white space is completely irrelevant; if such a line is truly empty, then your
file would end with *two* newline codes, which may be CRLF or just LF, depending
on your choice between DOS and UNIX file formats).

Of course, other editors may not be as civilised as vi/vim, in this respect :)

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