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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Navy Cheng <navych@126.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: What's the meaning of "^A" in emacs?
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:46:11 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <65450495-00cf-49f2-9577-548cc025796e@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150728134848.GA2384@debian>

> What't the meaning of "^-characters" such as ^A, ^_, ^O ? I see this
> characters in some files. And How can I input this characters?

See the Emacs manual, node `Text Display'.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Text-Display.html

You can insert any control character by first hitting `C-q' and then
hitting the character (e.g. use "Control + q Control + a" to insert
the Control A character.

For info about `C-q', see the Emacs manual, node `Inserting Text'.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Inserting-Text.html



  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-28 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-28 13:48 What's the meaning of "^A" in emacs? Navy Cheng
2015-07-28 15:46 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-07-28 21:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-29 14:55   ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-07-29 15:11     ` Drew Adams
2015-07-29 15:16       ` Drew Adams
2015-07-29 15:22         ` Drew Adams
2015-07-29 15:23       ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-07-29 22:39         ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-29 15:35     ` Marcin Borkowski

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