CLI text editor recommendation

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-09-13 17:49, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52 at dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>Andy Greenwood wrote:
>> I need a CLI text editor I can use over ssh, which does NOT append
>> newlines to the end of files as I save them. I am using this to edit
>> PHP files, and my PHP doesn't like newlines outside the last ?>. ee
>> and vi both do so, I tried nano which also does the same. I haven't
>> installed emacs to try that yet, since the man page says that it also
>> does the same thing. Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Emacs most certainly can save files without newlines.  I don't see any
> option in my .emacs to force this behaviour so assume it works out of
> the box, nor can I find any reference in the man page which says it
> does add newlines.

FWIW, try looking at the documentation of `require-final-newline':

    C-h v require-final-newline RET