Re: Consensus: Remove form-feeds?

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Thursday 06 June 2013 11:19:43 Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, Ondrej Bilka wrote:
> > As there is currently no consensus about form feeds I ask if we want
> > them?
> 
> Their use is as described in the GNU Coding Standards:
> 
>   @cindex formfeed
>   @cindex control-L
>   Please use formfeed characters (control-L) to divide the program into
>   pages at logical places (but not within a function).  It does not matter
>   just how long the pages are, since they do not have to fit on a printed
>   page.  The formfeeds should appear alone on lines by themselves.
> 
> You could suggest a change to bug-standards@gnu.org, if this usage no
> longer seems useful to you.

yeah, i don't mind them in projects that use them (like glibc or 
binutils/gdb).  they're even kind of handy as they provide visual clues as to 
logical breaks in a file.
-mike

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