https://github.com/vbvictor created 
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/176654

It was not clear from the description what this option does.
Added small example to demostrate its behavior.

>From a2286ac4e494cd80081761dff82351b49fd2d16a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Baranov <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:44:04 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] [clang-format][NFC] Improve KeepFormFeed option decription

---
 clang/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.rst | 16 ++++++++++++----
 clang/include/clang/Format/Format.h    | 15 +++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/clang/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.rst 
b/clang/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.rst
index 4f81a084dd65b..74cbc040659a9 100644
--- a/clang/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.rst
+++ b/clang/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.rst
@@ -5012,10 +5012,18 @@ the configuration (without a prefix: ``Auto``).
 .. _KeepFormFeed:
 
 **KeepFormFeed** (``Boolean``) :versionbadge:`clang-format 20` :ref:`ΒΆ 
<KeepFormFeed>`
-  Keep the form feed character if it's immediately preceded and followed by
-  a newline. Multiple form feeds and newlines within a whitespace range are
-  replaced with a single newline and form feed followed by the remaining
-  newlines.
+  Keep the form feed character (``\f``) if it's immediately preceded and
+  followed by a newline. Multiple form feeds and newlines within a
+  whitespace range are replaced with a single newline and form feed
+  followed by the remaining newlines.
+
+  .. code-block:: c++
+
+    false:          true:
+
+    "int i;\n"      "int i;\n"
+    "\n"            "\f\n"
+    "void f();"     "void f();"
 
 .. _LambdaBodyIndentation:
 
diff --git a/clang/include/clang/Format/Format.h 
b/clang/include/clang/Format/Format.h
index c7e57d47f9ed1..2c8b7b5c2c0be 100644
--- a/clang/include/clang/Format/Format.h
+++ b/clang/include/clang/Format/Format.h
@@ -3517,10 +3517,17 @@ struct FormatStyle {
   /// \version 3.7
   // bool KeepEmptyLinesAtTheStartOfBlocks;
 
-  /// Keep the form feed character if it's immediately preceded and followed by
-  /// a newline. Multiple form feeds and newlines within a whitespace range are
-  /// replaced with a single newline and form feed followed by the remaining
-  /// newlines.
+  /// Keep the form feed character (``\f``) if it's immediately preceded and
+  /// followed by a newline. Multiple form feeds and newlines within a
+  /// whitespace range are replaced with a single newline and form feed
+  /// followed by the remaining newlines.
+  /// \code
+  ///   false:          true:
+  ///
+  ///   "int i;\n"      "int i;\n"
+  ///   "\n"            "\f\n"
+  ///   "void f();"     "void f();"
+  /// \endcode
   /// \version 20
   bool KeepFormFeed;
 

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