Pages in Emacs

Eric James Michael Ritz over at One More Game-Dev and Programming Blog has a nice post on how and why to use pages in Emacs. Pages in Emacs are text separated by form feeds (0xC)1. As Ritz explains, it’s easy to move between pages by using 【Ctrl+x [】 (backward-page) and 【Ctrl+x ]】 (forward-page).

Most of us don’t use pages but Ritz gives us a good use case. As he points out, you can install a package such as Steve Purcell’s page-break-lines package that will make the breaks explicit and others that make navigation easier. Go read his post and see if you can make pages work for you.

Footnotes:

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Although, like everything else in Emacs, that’s configurable. It’s controlled by the page-delimiter variable.

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