From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Using 'register' and ^L
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 13:46:06 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhps5bht.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <540FC189.3070309@yandex.ru>
Dmitry Antipov writes:
> 2) Why still using ^L?
It's not for printing, it's for section navigation in Emacs and other
capable programmer's editors. Like GNU man pages (bash.1, I'm looking
at you![1]), they typically far overflow the printed page.
Cf. M-x {forward,backward,mark,narrow-to}-page.
The-S-in-scrollbar-stands-for-suck-ly y'rs,
Footnotes:
[1] No, I'm not interested in hearing about The Official GNU
Documentation Format.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-10 4:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-10 3:12 Using 'register' and ^L Dmitry Antipov
2014-09-10 4:46 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2014-09-10 5:30 ` Paul Eggert
2014-09-10 13:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-10 17:37 ` Richard Stallman
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