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Re: Extraneous form feeds
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: Extraneous form feeds |
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Sat, 01 Apr 2017 02:40:08 +0200 |
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Hi,
J William Piggott wrote:
> This project is loaded with extraneous form feeds (FF, 0x0C, ^L).
Quoting Wikipedia [1]:
"The form feed character is sometimes used in plain text files of source code
as a delimiter for a page break, or as marker for sections of code. Some
editors, in particular emacs and vi, have built-in commands to page up/down
on the form feed character."
> Many, if not all, of them were in the initial commit:
In the ancient times, most editors enabled you to edit one file at a time.
That's the reason why people put a lot of code in a single file - you
cited regcomp.c and regexec.c in particular - and therefore needed a way
to dissect the file into sections or pages. Nowadays it is more common
to distribute the code over several files.
Bruno
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_break