The last blank line is not ignored

[btnlq]

WinMerge 2.16.4.0 x64

Program is configured to ignore whitespace, but:

• Last blank line is not ignored.
• Text3 lines are highlighted as different.

[production-raps-kev]

This is almost a year old, has there been any movement on this?

[sambartle]

Is there any known workaround for this?

It flags just about every file for some of our projects due to a code cleaner adding a carriage return at the end of the file.

[marcinhordziej]

Still an issue - makes comparing much more complicated on huge amount of files.

[JasperTeng]

I agree this should be fixed. most modern systems are able to handle texts without a blank last line. There is no need to highlight it specifically. If the concern is to maintain backward compatibility, maybe it can be added as an additional option.
e.g.:
[X] Ignore blank lines [_] including last line.

[sambartle]

It's a critical bug in my eyes.. as the ignore whitespace option basically doesn't work.
I switched to a BC for this reason as its marked as Not a bug.. indicating its intentional.

[TFWol]

Yes, this is still annoying.

[sdottaka]

PR #2573 allows you to ignore differences where only one of the files does not have a trailing newline.