From cbf30e45872d7a11fffcbf123710521805fb404e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kévin Le Gouguec Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 19:48:40 +0200 Subject: Add motivating example for making form feeds prettier by default --- itches/emacs/form-feed.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'itches/emacs/form-feed.md') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3