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Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help.
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Hongyi Zhao |
Subject: |
Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help. |
Date: |
Tue, 6 Jul 2021 11:44:43 +0800 |
On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 10:55 AM Emanuel Berg via Users list for the
GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hongyi Zhao wrote:
>
> > I noticed so many `^L' appeared in Emacs' built-in help.
> > According to the ascii document shown below, this should
> > mean '\f' (form feed):
> >
> > $ man ascii | grep ' L$'
> > 014 12 0C FF '\f' (form feed) 114 76 4C L
> >
> > But I also noticed that this control character is not used
> > evenly throughout the document.
> >
> > Any hints for this phenomenon?
>
> This was discussed here not long ago! See if you can grep the
> archives! [1]
>
> They are used to delimit
>
>
>
> pages!
>
> M-x insert-char RET FORM FEED (FF) RET
>
But `M-x describe-char RET' for `^L' in scratch buffer shows the following:
to input: type "C-x 8 RET c" or "C-x 8 RET FORM FEED (FF)"
And the above-mentioned two type input sequences will generated
different characters:
"C-x 8 RET c" ---> `^F'
"C-x 8 RET FORM FEED (FF)" ---> `^L'
> [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/
Are there some built-in Emacs commands for searching this mail archive
conveniently?
Regards
--
Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Vocational University of Technology and Engineering
NO. 552 North Gangtie Road, Xingtai, China
Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help., Emanuel Berg, 2021/07/05
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- Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help., Emanuel Berg, 2021/07/06
- Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help., Hongyi Zhao, 2021/07/06
- Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help., Hongyi Zhao, 2021/07/06
- Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help., Emanuel Berg, 2021/07/06
- Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help., Hongyi Zhao, 2021/07/06
- Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help., Emanuel Berg, 2021/07/06
- Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help., Hongyi Zhao, 2021/07/06
- Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help., Hongyi Zhao, 2021/07/06
- Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help., Hongyi Zhao, 2021/07/06
- Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help., Hongyi Zhao, 2021/07/06