From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Using 'register' and ^L Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 13:46:06 +0900 Message-ID: <87lhps5bht.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <540FC189.3070309@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410324410 26499 80.91.229.3 (10 Sep 2014 04:46:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 04:46:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs development discussions To: Dmitry Antipov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 10 06:46:42 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XRZnm-0007Hv-N8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 06:46:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53275 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRZnm-00030Z-7R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:46:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51674) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRZnT-0002zy-Bh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:46:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRZnL-0004uS-SA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:46:23 -0400 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:33368) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRZnL-0004uG-IW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:46:15 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85CEA1C38CC; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 13:46:06 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7783F1A3915; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 13:46:06 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <540FC189.3070309@yandex.ru> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" acf1c26e3019 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:174138 Archived-At: 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.