SUMMARY Kate displays a newline at the end of a file, even when there isn't one there. This is annoying when editing a yaml file where the linter expects you to have a newline at the end of the file. In kate the editor shows a newline at the end of the file, but the file contents don't have this newline. The annoying part is that even when adding a newline within kate, kate won't save it. So there is no way to make the yaml linter happy. The Setting "Append newline at end of file on save" In "Open/Save" does not seem to have an effect. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Create new file with the following contents: ```yaml --- key: "value" ``` 2. Save the file 3. Kate will add a newline (Line 4) in the display 4. Check the file with any other editor, e.g. `vim`. The immaginary newline is not there 5. `yamllint` will complain about the missing newline OBSERVED RESULT * Newline is displayed but not saved * Enabling/Disabling the "Append newline at end of file on save" does not seem to have any effect on this issue EXPECTED RESULT * Newline is only displayed if present * If present, the newline character at the end of the file will be saved to disk SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240716 KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.4.0 Qt Version: 6.7.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION None
Sorry, this report was wrong. The "Append newline at end of file on save" does indeed work, the issue was on the side of a git hook that messed up the file before committing. Please ignore, Kate behaves just fine :-)