Hello all, I am not subscribed so please cc me. This project is loaded with extraneous form feeds (FF, 0x0C, ^L). Many, if not all, of them were in the initial commit:
8< --- commit 43e78b970f396160a887c9da94531569faeda8a0 Author: Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> Date: Sun Nov 1 05:44:30 1992 +0000 Initial revision 8< --- I noticed one while working on parse-datetime.y. After tracing it back to the first commit I ran the following command on the repo: grep --exclude-dir=.git -IErin '^L' | less doc/COPYING.LESSERv2:58:^L doc/COPYING.LESSERv2:114:^L doc/COPYING.LESSERv2:161:^L doc/COPYING.LESSERv2:219:^L doc/COPYING.LESSERv2:270:^L doc/COPYING.LESSERv2:332:^L doc/COPYING.LESSERv2:373:^L doc/COPYING.LESSERv2:425:^L doc/COPYING.LESSERv2:459:^L lib/error.c:329:^L lib/glob.c:105:^L lib/getloadavg.c:438:^L lib/getloadavg.c:472:^L lib/regcomp.c:126:^L lib/regcomp.c:206:^L lib/regcomp.c:429:^L lib/regcomp.c:663:^L lib/regcomp.c:731:^L lib/regcomp.c:1083:^L lib/regcomp.c:1165:^L lib/regcomp.c:1778:^L lib/regcomp.c:2115:^L lib/regcomp.c:3789:^L lib/regcomp.c:3805:^L lib/getopt_int.h:29:^L lib/parse-datetime.y:1169:^L lib/regexec.c:204:^L lib/regexec.c:587:^L lib/regexec.c:601:^L lib/regexec.c:2261:^L lib/regexec.c:4169:^L lib/euidaccess.c:194:^L lib/getopt.c:21:^L lib/getopt.c:99:^L lib/getopt.c:103:^L lib/getopt.c:288:^L lib/getopt.c:1206:^L lib/argmatch.c:71:^L lib/getcwd.c:102:^L lib/strtol.c:410:^L lib/argp-parse.c:66:^L lib/argp-parse.c:140:^L lib/argp-parse.c:172:^L lib/argp-parse.c:191:^L lib/argp-parse.c:241:^L lib/argp-parse.c:274:^L lib/argp-parse.c:416:^L lib/argp-parse.c:568:^L lib/argp-parse.c:660:^L lib/argp-parse.c:714:^L lib/argp-parse.c:773:^L lib/argp-parse.c:864:^L lib/argp-parse.c:934:^L lib/getopt1.c:18:^L lib/getopt1.c:79:^L lib/argp-fmtstream.h:90:^L lib/argp-fmtstream.h:148:^L lib/argp-fmtstream.h:186:^L lib/argz.in.h:117:^L lib/regex_internal.h:738:^L lib/regex_internal.c:31:^L lib/regex_internal.c:962:^L lib/regex_internal.c:1397:^L lib/argp-fmtstream.c:49:^L lib/argp-fmtstream.c:117:^L lib/argp-fmtstream.c:346:^L lib/argp-fmtstream.c:399:^L lib/getusershell.c:74:^L lib/regex.h:213:^L lib/regex.h:394:^L lib/regex.h:480:^L lib/regex.h:523:^L lib/argp.h:67:^L lib/argp.h:149:^L lib/argp.h:289:^L lib/argp.h:314:^L lib/argp.h:362:^L lib/argp.h:422:^L lib/argp.h:465:^L lib/argp.h:503:^L lib/argp.h:573:^L lib/random_r.c:168:^L lib/random_r.c:234:^L lib/random_r.c:309:^L lib/random_r.c:364:^L lib/mktime.c:488:^L lib/mktime.c:625:^L lib/argp-help.c:58:^L lib/argp-help.c:254:^L lib/argp-help.c:273:^L lib/argp-help.c:337:^L lib/argp-help.c:349:^L lib/argp-help.c:428:^L lib/argp-help.c:500:^L lib/argp-help.c:524:^L lib/argp-help.c:546:^L lib/argp-help.c:597:^L lib/argp-help.c:650:^L lib/argp-help.c:660:^L lib/argp-help.c:713:^L lib/argp-help.c:832:^L lib/argp-help.c:925:^L lib/argp-help.c:964:^L lib/argp-help.c:1084:^L lib/argp-help.c:1211:^L lib/argp-help.c:1242:^L lib/argp-help.c:1321:^L lib/argp-help.c:1360:^L lib/argp-help.c:1383:^L lib/argp-help.c:1461:^L lib/argp-help.c:1554:^L lib/argp-help.c:1699:^L lib/argp-help.c:1755:^L lib/argp-help.c:1810:^L tests/test-update-copyright.sh:406: # 98, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, ^L 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, tests/test-argp.c:92:^L tests/test-argp.c:128:^L tests/test-argp.c:174:^L tests/test-argp.c:210:^L build-aux/texinfo.tex:238:%^L Output routine build-aux/texinfo.tex:4858:^L build-aux/texinfo.tex:5220:^L build-aux/texinfo.tex:8804:% ^L build-aux/gendocs.sh:285:# ^L build-aux/gendocs.sh:298:# ^L build-aux/gendocs.sh:317:# ^L build-aux/gendocs.sh:330:# ^L build-aux/gendocs.sh:409:# ^L build-aux/gendocs.sh:420:# ^L build-aux/gendocs.sh:460:# ^L config/srclist.txt:63:# ^L config/srclist-update:58:# ^L config/srclist-update:115:# ^L