Re: Crap in souce code

On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 13:18, Brandon Ehle wrote:
> BTW, whats up with all the 0x0C characters in the source code?

That's a control-L, or form feed. It signifies a logical break in the
source code. It will tell pagers (like "more") or printers to break the
page there, and may affect some editors, though I don't know how.

I don't use them personally, but they're not terribly uncommon in the
world of source code.

Oh, hey, from HACKING:

Using page breaks
=================

We're using page breaks (the Ctrl-L character, ASCII 12) for section
boundaries in both code and plaintext prose files. This file is a
good example of how it's done: each section starts with a page break,
and immediately after the page break comes the title of the section.

This helps out people who use the Emacs page commands, such as
`pages-directory' and `narrow-to-page'. Such people are not as scarce
as you might think, and if you'd like to become one of them, then type
C-x C-p C-h in Emacs sometime.

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Received on Thu Nov 21 19:31:31 2002