Re: strange character "\f" found in source

[Patrick McCarty]

On 2009-08-21, Mark Polesky wrote:
> I found a strange "\f" character on line 2317 of
> define-markup-commands.scm:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=blob;f=scm/define-markup-commands.scm;#l2317

Ah, you've discovered the form feed characters.  :-)

In Vim, they are printed as "^L".

> There are more in the same file, on lines 3036, 3082, 3115.
> 
> I tried using savannah's grep on the web to see if there
> are more in the source code, but I can't get a single hit.
> And I got this a lot: "XML Parsing Error: not well-formed".
> 
> I also tried these within the Git Bash, but they don't work
> either:
> 
> grep -i -G \f scm/*
> grep -i -E \f scm/*
> git grep -i -G \f scm/*
> git grep -i -E \f scm/*
> 
> Anyone know how to do this?

With my bash shell, you can type

  git grep "^L" scm/*

where ^L is typed as "C-V C-L".

And I get these hits:

  scm/define-markup-commands.scm:^L
  scm/define-markup-commands.scm:^L
  scm/define-markup-commands.scm:^L
  scm/define-markup-commands.scm:^L

HTH,
Patrick