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From: Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] USB Support
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:13:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1220199236.4354.30.camel@fz.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080831085914.341797ab@gamma.lan>

Am Sonntag, den 31.08.2008, 08:59 -0700 schrieb Colin D Bennett:

Hello Colin,

> > 
> > Weird `\f' character which seems not to make sense.
> 
> Actually that is a form feed character, which the GNU coding standard
> recommends to be used to break up source code at logical places:

Yep Marco already told me on IRC that this was with intent :)

>   Please use formfeed characters (control-L) to divide the program into
>   pages at logical places (but not within a function). It does not
>   matter just how long the pages are, since they do not have to fit on a
>   printed page. The formfeeds should appear alone on lines by
>   themselves. 
> (http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Formatting.html#Formatting)

Thanks for the copy&paste and even the link to it.
I still find it weird and I even wasn't able yet to produce them in
Emacs.
Control-L is the wrong key combination for it ;)

-- 
Felix Zielcke




  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-31 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-27 19:56 [RFC] USB Support Marco Gerards
2008-08-28 10:16 ` Felix Zielcke
2008-08-31 15:59   ` Colin D Bennett
2008-08-31 16:13     ` Felix Zielcke [this message]
2008-08-31 16:28       ` Colin D Bennett
2008-08-30 11:53 ` Robert Millan

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