[Cocci] Unwanted empty lines

[Julia Lawall]

> PS: Would it be acceptable to extend the syntax of -inplace to be similar to
> sed (making backups optional)? Something like this:
> 
>        -inplace[=SUFFIX]
> 
>               edit files in place (makes backup if extension supplied)
> 
> Having git, I'd like to drop them as backups are not needed but they make 'git
> status' a bit messy.

Perhaps we could remove the inplace option and replace it with a new one, 
eg overwrite, that would have the above functionality.  That way, someone 
who was relying on the old functionality would know that something has 
changed.

julia