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Re: Extraneous form feeds
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J William Piggott |
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Re: Extraneous form feeds |
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Sat, 1 Apr 2017 08:16:34 -0400 |
Thank you for the education Bruno; I wasn't aware of that.
Apologies for adding noise to the list.
On 03/31/2017 08:40 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi,
>
> J William Piggott wrote:
>> This project is loaded with extraneous form feeds (FF, 0x0C, ^L).
>
> Quoting Wikipedia [1]:
> "The form feed character is sometimes used in plain text files of source
> code
> as a delimiter for a page break, or as marker for sections of code. Some
> editors, in particular emacs and vi, have built-in commands to page up/down
> on the form feed character."
>
>> Many, if not all, of them were in the initial commit:
>
> In the ancient times, most editors enabled you to edit one file at a time.
> That's the reason why people put a lot of code in a single file - you
> cited regcomp.c and regexec.c in particular - and therefore needed a way
> to dissect the file into sections or pages. Nowadays it is more common
> to distribute the code over several files.
>
> Bruno
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_break
>
>
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