Saving CMS pages from admin back-end and VCS

[arvislacis]

Maybe there are some historical or technical reasons but I was thinking about some interesting behavior currently happening when saving CMS pages from admin back-end UI:

1. If page has PHP code section then <?php and ?> tags are added to the PHP code section (if they original doesn't exist).
2. Also when page is saved then any trailing new-lines are removed from file.

Both of these behaviors conflicts with VCS like git and/or different coding standarts, for example, when source code files always should have trailing new-line. Also, for example, Winter CMS doc examples mostly everywhere shows CMS page structure with PHP code section without <?php / ?> tags...

So I was thinking - are there some particular reason for this? I am mostly referring to the 1st point... Maybe there should be additional configuration options for this, for example, which would not add <?php / ?> and another one for trailing new-lines?

Or I better should try to achieve this with my own custom plugin functionality?

[bennothommo]

I'm not quite sure on the reasoning on the first point - I can only assume it was to make it clear that the content block was a PHP script, but there could very well be other reasons why it is done.

On the second point, I believe that's because the content blocks are run through trim() on save to remove any extra spacing.

[LukeTowers]

With the first point I personally add them myself to all the files I work on, I think it makes it easier for syntax highlighting to work correctly.

[LukeTowers]

The docs examples could always be updated

[arvislacis]

@bennothommo @LukeTowers Thanks for your answers.

In my opinion the problem is consistency and/or configuration options. Probably both of these things could be made configurable in ../config/cms.php file, like, for example, convertLineEndings option is.

Anyway, I will try to look at the option how to solve this with custom plugin functionality or something...

[LukeTowers]

I'd be fine with just making it so files always end with a newline by default personally