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Re: Consensus: Remove form-feeds?
- From: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- To: Nix <nix at esperi dot org dot uk>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 18:24:23 +0200
- Subject: Re: Consensus: Remove form-feeds?
- References: <20130606150447 dot GA5081 at domone dot kolej dot mff dot cuni dot cz> <87fvwvtkbl dot fsf at spindle dot srvr dot nix>
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 02:55:42PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> On 6 Jun 2013, OndÅej BÃlka spake thusly:
>
> > My opinion is that as they serve no purpose other that having ^L in
> > code we should remove them.
>
> But they do serve a purpose, though that purpose is less than it once
> was.
>
> Emacs's narrow-to-page can use them, so you can use them to split up the
> codebase into functional units larger or smaller than functions, if you
> want. And there *may* be editors -- in the past, Emacs was one -- that
> have limited understanding of the semantics of C such that they can
> split on page breaks but not on function boundaries. (This may be purely
> historical by this point.)
>
Thanks for information. So who does still somebody use them in emacs?