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		dasyatidprime on Sept 16, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Byte Ordering: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace (... ^L is still normal as a separator in Emacs Lisp code files!

p_l on Sept 16, 2024 [–]

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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