RE: Why do I find ^L in elisp code?

[arthur miller <arthur.miller@live.com>]

You read Emacs source in other text editor then Emacs? 🙄

As Eli and someone else wrote, Emacs has page oriented commands to navigate text.



-------- Originalmeddelande --------
Från: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
Datum: 2021-05-22 17:47 (GMT+01:00)
Till: arthur miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
Kopia: 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Ämne: Why do I find ^L in elisp code?

Is it still useful in new code?

The Form Feed is hard to type.  Most text editors do not provide easy ways to type it.
Could emacs cease using invisible glyphs as they could be are confusing and hard to read
and type?  Sometimes I see an ASCII art box.

Regards
Christopher


> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2021 at 3:30 AM
> From: "arthur miller" <arthur.miller@live.com>
> To: "2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com" <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>, "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: RE: Why do I find ^L in elisp code?
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> If  you are going to contribute a patch, don't remove them. I Was told .... 😀
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> -------- Originalmeddelande --------
> Från: 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com
> Datum: 2021-05-22 17:23 (GMT+01:00)
> Till: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Ämne: Re: Why do I find ^L in elisp code?
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> On 2021-05-22 at 16:53:33 +0200,
> Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> wrote:
>
> > Why do I find ^L in elisp code?
>
> Printers interpret U+000C FORM FEED as, well, a form feed, aka a page
> break.  In the days of paper printers, it was a way to force the printer
> to start a new page.  Yes, much existing elisp is that old.
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