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A comment on Byte Ordering: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace (1980).

Re:Byte Ordering: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace (1980) by SSLy on Monday September 16, 2024 @04:12AM (#41553876)
Lmao, this has raw actual-ANSI-control-code 000C <control> = FORM FEED (FF) in the text.
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Re:Byte Ordering: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace (1980) by dasyatidprime on Monday September 16, 2024 @04:32AM (#41553979)
^L is still normal as a separator in Emacs Lisp code files!
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Re:Byte Ordering: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace (1980) by p_l on Monday September 16, 2024 @07:31AM (#41554980)
TECO (and thus Emacs) supported a commands like "read page" which turned into movement by page in Emacs, which is why ^L shows up in Emacs Lisp (and sometimes similar vintage code)
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