Re: Form Feed characters in *Compile-Log*
Madhu via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <[email protected]> Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:17:48 +0530
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* Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> : Wrote on Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:36:39 +0300: >> >> Why does the *Compile-Log* (elisp-compile) buffer use the ASCII Form >> Feed character (the ugly ^L below) to separate compilations? >> Is this ASCII FF some standard way to easily separate compilation >> runs? How would you normally take advantage of that separation? You can try glyphless-display-mode to see if you like the replacement glyph for ^L any better > This allows you to move between compilations with forward-page and > backward-page.