diff --git a/mousepad/mousepad-file.c b/mousepad/mousepad-file.c
index b44acec..d987b27 100644
--- a/mousepad/mousepad-file.c
+++ b/mousepad/mousepad-file.c
@@ -603,6 +603,10 @@ mousepad_file_open (MousepadFile  *file,
                 }
             }
 
+          /* text view doesn't expect a line ending at end of last line, but Unix and Mac files do */
+          if ((*(n = g_utf8_prev_char(end)) == '\n' && *g_utf8_prev_char(n) != '\r') || *n == '\r')
+            end--;
+
           /* get the iter at the beginning of the document */
           gtk_text_buffer_get_start_iter (file->buffer, &start_iter);
 
@@ -757,8 +761,8 @@ mousepad_file_save (MousepadFile  *file,
           /* add and utf-8 bom at the start of the contents if needed */
           if (file->write_bom && mousepad_encoding_is_unicode (file->encoding))
             {
-              /* realloc the contents string */
-              contents = g_realloc (contents, length + 4);
+              /* realloc the contents string. +1 in case we append extra line ending */
+              contents = g_realloc (contents, length + 5);
 
               /* move the existing contents 3 bytes */
               g_memmove (contents + 3, contents, length + 1);
@@ -772,6 +776,18 @@ mousepad_file_save (MousepadFile  *file,
               length += 3;
             }
 
+          /* text view doesn't expect a line ending at end of last line, but Unix and Mac files do */
+          if (file->line_ending != MOUSEPAD_EOL_DOS)
+            {
+              /* realloc contents. does nothing if realloc above already resized */
+              contents = g_realloc (contents, length + 2);
+
+              contents[length] = file->line_ending == MOUSEPAD_EOL_MAC ? '\r' : '\n';
+              contents[length + 1] = '\0';
+
+              length++;
+            }
+
           /* convert to the encoding if set */
           if (G_UNLIKELY (file->encoding != MOUSEPAD_ENCODING_UTF_8))
             {