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Re: Consensus: Remove form-feeds?
- From: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 19:10:47 +0200
- Subject: Re: Consensus: Remove form-feeds?
- References: <20130606150447 dot GA5081 at domone dot kolej dot mff dot cuni dot cz> <mvm8v2n9w9g dot fsf at hawking dot suse dot de>
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 03:58:03PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> OndÅej BÃlka <neleai@seznam.cz> writes:
>
> > As there is currently no consensus about form feeds I ask if we want
> > them?
>
> What does that fix?
>
They tend to get into way of scripts. As a bit contrived
example the line
^L
does not raise warning in git diff --check.