Stefan Sperling:

> > Some source files also have old-style ^L pagination.
> 
> ^L seems to show up fine for me. It displays as "^L", i.e. ^ and L.

It's passed as whitespace and then post-processed to "^L" by whatever
is doing that, messing up the width again.

> > I do like ^ notation for control characters.
> 
> Does that mean you'd rather just special-case ESC instead of the above patch?

No, I wonder whether format_line() should do the ^ escaping itself.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de