scratch adds newline at end of file

[Julien Spautz]

Scratch always adds a newline character at the end of the file and there seems to be no way to remove this newline because it gets immediately readded.

[Tristan Davies (tristan.io)]

A lot of text editors do this (gedit, for example)

However, I have noticed that scratch displays trailing newlines, which many text editors do not (gedit, for example)

[Arturo Torres Sánchez (r2d2.art2005)]

“A lot of text editors do this”
Why? Why is this an expected behaviour?

[Alex Gleason (alexgleason)]

This has been driving me crazy because of the fact that Scratch also autosaves. Simply opening a file causes a new line to be added to the end of it which is immediately saved without any confirmation or indication that it's happening. Any time I open a file now I have to backspace from the bottom lines before closing it. I'd say that this makes it of "high" importance.

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

There's a plugin for this in the preferences.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

First, the plugin has side effects.
Second, this should not require a plugin.