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Re: Using 'register' and ^L
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Using 'register' and ^L |
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Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:11:25 -0400 |
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> There's no reason to use 'register' nowadays in the Emacs source code. We
> haven't bothered to systematically remove 'register' because it's been
> treated like tabs versus spaces, i.e., not worth changing.
Exactly.
> But if instances of 'register' are causing trouble please just remove them.
^
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Right. It's also acceptable to remove them on a line you're modifying
for other reasons any way (just like TAB-vs-SPC, again).
Stefan