diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index b662e84a840759386ea5386799601f1aaebc242b..065da36f5f3c7297e84e0ab56cf767894bff4ec6 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ lacks unexec, asynchronous processes, and networking support.
 
 * Changes in Emacs 21.1
 
+** When visiting a file with M-x find-file-literally, no newlines will
+be added to the end of the buffer because of `require-final-newline'.
+
 ** auto-compression mode is no longer enabled just by loading jka-compr.el.
 To control it, set `auto-compression-mode' via Custom or use the
 `auto-compression-mode' command.
diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index ccaf136403e45c45358b12cc660c8c2b8c61f45e..86bd76bc1da47fe0350c3ce5d1f11250d0055afb 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2000-11-16  Gerd Moellmann  <gerd@gnu.org>
 
+	* files.el (basic-save-buffer): Don't add a newline if
+	find-file-literally is non-nil.
+	(find-file-literally): Extend doc string.
+
 	* sort.el (sort-columns): If sort-fold-case it non-nil, invoke
 	sort(1) with the `-f' argument.
 
diff --git a/man/files.texi b/man/files.texi
index 5466417c3b60d9d26c314491ca15dc14f3ea0375..2accbadbc03cb0b47ea3b91b7f320739d802d46c 100644
--- a/man/files.texi
+++ b/man/files.texi
@@ -278,7 +278,8 @@ system.  @xref{Frames}.
 encoding or conversion, use the @kbd{M-x find-file-literally} command.
 It visits a file, like @kbd{C-x C-f}, but does not do format conversion
 (@pxref{Formatted Text}), character code conversion (@pxref{Coding
-Systems}), or automatic uncompression (@pxref{Compressed Files}).
+Systems}), or automatic uncompression (@pxref{Compressed Files}), and
+does not add a final newline because of @code{require-final-newline}.
 If you already have visited the same file in the usual (non-literal)
 manner, this command asks you whether to visit it literally instead.