Do not auto-add a newline at EOF

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created December 31, 2010 · complexity basic · author Joliss · version 7.0

By default, Vim adds a newline after the last line of each file. That's great for new files, but when you edit other people's files and they don't have newlines at the end, the diff gets cluttered with an extra chunk like this, because Vim "helpfully" added a newline:

-  }
\ No newline at end of file
+  }

To stop this from happening, add this to your .vimrc:

set binary

Caveats:

This will break your line-endings on Windows.
Options textwidth, wrapmargin, modeline and expandtab are reset by :set binary, so make sure that "set binary" comes before setting any of these options.

Always remove newlines at EOF

If you want to always strip newlines from files, you can try this:[1]

au BufWritePre * :set binary | set noeol
au BufWritePost * :set nobinary | set eol

Do not auto-add a newline at EOF

Always remove newlines at EOF

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