From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What's the meaning of "^A" in emacs? Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:23:26 -0400 Message-ID: <874mkn9edt.fsf@yale.edu> References: <20150728134848.GA2384@debian> <87k2tkaruw.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <87d1zb9fp3.fsf@yale.edu> <796c41be-b137-43a6-b514-d71beb4f12e2@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1438183346 17472 80.91.229.3 (29 Jul 2015 15:22:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 15:22:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 29 17:22:11 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZKTBI-00029N-US for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:22:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35674 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZKTBI-0006wa-0Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:22:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35741) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZKTB2-0006wP-P4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:21:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZKTAy-0003Lr-TQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:21:52 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35463) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZKTAy-0003Fu-Mf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:21:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZKTAo-0001n4-Vo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:21:39 +0200 Original-Received: from 130.132.236.141 ([130.132.236.141]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:21:38 +0200 Original-Received: from jorge.alfaro-murillo by 130.132.236.141 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:21:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.132.236.141 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1NzaZqEZPii7wf7KfacNUoMqKMc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106116 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: >> > When you say "input", do you mean to *insert* them as chars >> > into a buffer? If so, just hit C-q first. But I don't think >> > you should do this too often (?). >> Yes, why would someone use this? The only thing that I use is >> the "form feed" (^L) to divide sections in plain text documents >> and then be able to use C-x [ and C-x ] to move between pages. >> Does someone know of any other "control character" use? > > It is common to use `C-j' when you interactively enter a regexp > that contains a newline char (Control J). This is because > (vanilla) Emacs binds `C-j' in the minibuffer to a command other > than self-insertion. Yes, I had forgotten that one. It is very handy not only in regexp but when using command query-replace. Another use is C-q , for writing a space with ido or when auto-fill-mode is on and you want not to break the line. -- Jorge.