On: Stop the Vertical Tab Madness (2010)

[unwind]

This seems related: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#index-contr....

That's a part of the GNU Coding Standards which say:

Please use formfeed characters (control-L) to divide the program into pages at logical places (but not within a function)..

I always found that particularly archaic.

And yes, of course I realize that vertical tab and form feed are distinct characters.

[wtbob → unwind]

^L is supported in most pagers and news clients to split pause scrolling, so this makes sense.

[froydnj → unwind]

Obviously it's helpful for printing things.

Less obviously, emacs has commands that navigate by logical pages (C-x [, C-x ]). And of course you can adjust the regex that denotes logical pages.