Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips

Xah Lee xahlee at gmail.com
Fri Jun 25 16:34:36 EDT 2010


On Jun 24, 11:12 am, Tassilo Horn <tass... at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> Xah Lee <xah... at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Xah,
>
> > also, besides emacs elisp, does anyone see the form feed char in other
> > lang source code?
>
> It's quite often used in messages in newsgroups and mailing lists.  The
> Gnus news- and mailreader creates nice "Next/Previous page" buttons from
> them and hides the next/previous part.  Really good for posting fun
> questions, so that you don't see the answer directly.
>
> Why did the chicken cross the road?    
>
> To show the raccoon it could be done!!

Tassilo, i use google groups to read news, so i don't see any form
feed. Don't think i can see them in any or most web based interface.
Just checked gmane.org it also doesn't show. With google group, if you
view the message raw, it's still there though...

 Xah



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