Whitespace at start and end of file not preserved - should it be? about fantomas HOT 3 CLOSED

I agree that we should add EOL character.

But why should we preserve initial and last whitespace lines? Aren't they simply noise?

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It definitely should preserve the last EOL character at the end of the file. Was also just about to report that

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For some reason, for every script I write I always add a few empty lines at the top. I don't know why - perhaps it's just because I want to visually separate the code from the menus, tabs etc. at the top. So preserving the whitespace seems tolerant of this habit.

I actually suspect a "preserve empty lines" option may eventually be needed to only do indentation formatting and not add/remove empty lines before and after declarations. Just a feeling I have - that might change as I learn to rely on the formatter more.

I don't mind about preserving extra lines at the end (though we all agree a final EOL is needed)

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