From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: describe-bindings: ^L, bad order, naming Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 05:20:01 +0900 Message-ID: References: <200511112049.jABKn9r23432@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200511121428.jACES8A26790@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1131826837 1435 80.91.229.2 (12 Nov 2005 20:20:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:20:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Luc Teirlinck , drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 12 21:20:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eb1rI-0007iF-Al for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 21:20:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eb1rH-0006QU-O7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:20:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eb1r4-0006Pn-IL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:20:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eb1r0-0006Na-S8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:20:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eb1r0-0006NU-9f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:20:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.197] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Eb1r0-0008JQ-3Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:20:02 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so1599209wri for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:20:01 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=onXFByFd/sw1dFv6UMw4XtgoMvxn9HDnsjQVBWzrFLpWs5EqkmX0FmAepZRZ6CNG65hZg/QikhcJX4/sl81JMlaqVpvBRQk6BtrNXEL1RUKb9Gnp2IjgvU8pjShLz21DONXvJ+u2TyIzJo3FqkhUSx4YcnBiY1Uwq4MlcQf5AgU= Original-Received: by 10.54.91.3 with SMTP id o3mr1676688wrb; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:20:01 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.160.4 with HTTP; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:20:01 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:45836 Archived-At: 2005/11/13, Eli Zaretskii : > > Not to waste too much paper and not too wind up with too many nearly > > blank pages. > > Never seen anyone who'd worry that much about this. Actually this _is_ a slight issue in my experience -- in practice (at least in the free software community) ^L seems to usually be used more for logically structuring files than for formatting them for printing. I like this usage, it's actually very handy, but it means that in the rare case where you actually print something it's quite common to get way too many page breaks ... [Though at this point in the thread I've forgotten why it's even being discussed :-] -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.