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| author | Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> | 2020-05-17 19:48:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> | 2020-05-17 19:49:57 +0200 |
| commit | cbf30e45872d7a11fffcbf123710521805fb404e (patch) | |
| tree | 0e6bde99d90f1e406a2674200297470ada313dc3 | |
| parent | 38c2cc67eea02a30c1cbe2ec27d8586dff8d0084 (diff) | |
| download | memory-leaks-cbf30e45872d7a11fffcbf123710521805fb404e.tar.xz | |
Add motivating example for making form feeds prettier by default
| -rw-r--r-- | itches/emacs/form-feed.md | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/itches/emacs/form-feed.md b/itches/emacs/form-feed.md index 4827a87..0bd9caa 100644 --- a/itches/emacs/form-feed.md +++ b/itches/emacs/form-feed.md @@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ unassuming control character. Having this kind of display by default would make it more obvious that this character has actual navigation semantics; as it stands, it looks -no different from some stray CARRIAGE RETURN. +no different from some stray CARRIAGE RETURN (to the point where +people unfamiliar with them [sometimes assume][junk] they are junk). I like the way form feeds are displayed with [`page-break-lines`]; magit's `show-lines` blaming style achieves a similar look. @@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ Full disclosure interesting issue ([who on Earth] enables `truncate-lines` by default anyway). +[junk]: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=41250#89 [`page-break-lines`]: https://github.com/purcell/page-break-lines [emacs-devel-thin-line]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-05/msg00268.html [who on Earth]: https://gitlab.com/peniblec/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs-custom.el |