bug#51016: 28.0.50; 'diff-font-lock-prettify' breaks display of outline headers

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org,  51016@debbugs.gnu.org,  orontee@gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 21:04:37 +0200
> 
> > Why are you talking about Org, when the proposed change is in
> > outline.el?
> 
> Because most people use Org that has more reasonable defaults.

You are free to use Org if that fits your workflows better.  That
doesn't mean we need to ignore users of Outline that don't use Org.

> > Please don't change the behavior of outline.el in
> > backward-incompatible ways.  This is used for NEWS and similar files,
> > and those do have ^L separators in them.
> 
> The proposed change is to improve NEWS and similar files to make
> their views more compact by fitting more lines on the screen.

What does this have to do with removing support for ^L?