Thank you for the education Bruno; I wasn't aware of that. Apologies for adding noise to the list.
On 03/31/2017 08:40 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi, > > J William Piggott wrote: >> This project is loaded with extraneous form feeds (FF, 0x0C, ^L). > > Quoting Wikipedia [1]: > "The form feed character is sometimes used in plain text files of source > code > as a delimiter for a page break, or as marker for sections of code. Some > editors, in particular emacs and vi, have built-in commands to page up/down > on the form feed character." > >> Many, if not all, of them were in the initial commit: > > In the ancient times, most editors enabled you to edit one file at a time. > That's the reason why people put a lot of code in a single file - you > cited regcomp.c and regexec.c in particular - and therefore needed a way > to dissect the file into sections or pages. Nowadays it is more common > to distribute the code over several files. > > Bruno > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_break > >
