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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.

lisp/ChangeLog

 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.
 

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.