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> Also, the fact that unix uses LF and windows uses CR/LF added to the confusion as well. And old Macs used CR. And some very rare old OSes used LF/CR! And t
by zeveb 7y ago
> Also, the fact that unix uses LF and windows uses CR/LF added to the confusion as well.
And old Macs used CR. And some very rare old OSes used LF/CR!
And then there's the practice on Unix of treating page feed as a scroll pause in pagers — I don't believe that I've seen that elsewhere.
So much for a standard code for information interchange! Don't even get me started about the file, group, record & unit (i.e., field) separators …
- dan-robertson 7y agoForm feeds are commonly used in emacs source code (and elisp in general) to separate sections. They’re easy to type once you know what’s going on: C-q C-l