Marc Weber <[email protected]> writes:

We all know the (lovely?) feature of Vim to treat no files ever as binary by default.

Now el-get is using url-retrieve to fetch tar files and using write-file to write it.

Now either vimpulse (or Viper?) is appending a trailing \n which makes tar complain about trailing garbage exiting with code 2.

How would you recommend to solve this issue?

I didn't start reading much vimpulse / Viper code yet. Maybe there is a simple option (?)

Try `C-h v require-final-newline': --- Documentation: Whether to add a newline automatically at the end of the file. A value of t means do this only when the file is about to be saved. A value of `visit' means do this right after the file is visited. A value of `visit-save' means do it at both of those times. Any other non-nil value means ask user whether to add a newline, when saving. A value of nil means don't add newlines. Certain major modes set this locally to the value obtained from `mode-require-final-newline'. You can customize this variable. --- HTH, Štěpán