title: preventing emacs from newline insertion
body: <p>How can I prevent emacs23 from inserting a newline after</p>
  
  <pre><code>C-u M-! date
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  <p>is executed? Setting</p>
  
  <pre><code>(setq-default mode-require-final-newline nil) 
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  <p>has somehow no effect.</p>