Re: Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips

2010-06-26 Thread .
Hello Xah, With your background and the time you spend with emacs/computers, I cannot explain to myself how you can read the news via a web interface like google news (google groups was a little better years ago, but now it is complete rubish). There are so many dedicated readers: emacs-gnus, tin

Re: Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips

2010-06-25 Thread Tassilo Horn
Xah Lee writes: > Tassilo, i use google groups to read news, so i don't see any form > feed. Don't think i can see them in any or most web based interface. Real men don't use web interfaces. ;-) > Just checked gmane.org it also doesn't show. With google group, if you > view the message raw, it'

Re: Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips

2010-06-25 Thread Xah Lee
On Jun 24, 11:12 am, Tassilo Horn wrote: > Xah Lee writes: > > Hi Xah, > > > also, besides emacs elisp, does anyone see the form feed char in other > > lang source code? > > It's quite often used in messages in newsgroups and mailing lists.  The > Gnus news- and mailreader creates nice "Next/Prev

Re: Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips

2010-06-24 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 06/24/2010 03:14 PM, Xah Lee wrote: > On Jun 24, 5:41 am, Xah Lee wrote: >> • Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips >> http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization_formfeed.html > > a follow up question. > > when i was learning python in ~2005, i remember seei

Re: Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips

2010-06-24 Thread Tassilo Horn
Xah Lee writes: Hi Xah, > also, besides emacs elisp, does anyone see the form feed char in other > lang source code? It's quite often used in messages in newsgroups and mailing lists. The Gnus news- and mailreader creates nice "Next/Previous page" buttons from them and hides the next/previous

Re: Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips

2010-06-24 Thread Xah Lee
On Jun 24, 5:41 am, Xah Lee wrote: > • Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips > http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization_formfeed.html a follow up question. when i was learning python in ~2005, i remember seeing it in python code, but i haven't done much python since. Does py

Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips

2010-06-24 Thread Xah Lee
• Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization_formfeed.html plain text version follows -- Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips Xah Lee, 2010-06-24 This page discusses some problems involving the Form feed