I'm just wondering if there has been any discussion or decision on how insert_final_newline = true is supposed to behave when there are multiple newlines at the end of a file?

The reason I bring this up is because we're using EditorConfig at work and we have a contractor who submitted a bunch of files w/ 2 newlines at the end of each file. It would be nice if we could enforce a newline and specify that it's exactly one newline.

I realize insert_final_newline = true, if it were to remove all but one newline at the end of a file, is not very intuitive, in which case, what do we do?

I'm actually not a fan of this rule name, for this reason and more. I brought up before that the false value is misleading, in that telling me to NOT insert a newline isn't saying to actually remove newlines.

I do think this would make more sense if the rule were named final_newlines and the value could be an integer. This way, 0 would remove the final newline, or multiple newlines would be removed until there are none, 1 would ensure only 1 newline exists and hell, 2 if for whatever reason you want 2 newlines at the end of your file. Go crazy. At least it's intuitive and you know exactly what to expect.

Thoughts?