Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:19:44 -0800 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2]kernel: remove mess codes |
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On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:43:19 -0800 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 12/13/09 16:33, Simon Horman wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:04:48PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > > >> On 12/12/09 22:55, liu weni wrote: > >> > >>> I found some mess characters(0x0c) in the kernel source code. > >>> Then I suggest remove it. > >>> > >> Those are form-feed characters. Some editors use them to separate > >> logically distinct blocks of code into separate "pages". > >> > > I can see their value in documentation, but I struggle to imagine > > their usefulness in code. > > > > I think a folding editor can fold them out, so you can just expand the > area you're interested in. Or something. The point is that it is > formatting that was presumably put there by the original author. Unless > they're actually upsetting something, I'd be inclined to leave them.
and if someone prints them on paper, the form-feed character will cause a, uh, form feed (new page).
--- ~Randy
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