Re: Extraneous form feeds

[J William Piggott]

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
> 
>