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 10:55:04 -0400 Message-ID: <87d1zb9fp3.fsf@yale.edu> References: <20150728134848.GA2384@debian> <87k2tkaruw.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1438181649 18452 80.91.229.3 (29 Jul 2015 14:54:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 14:54:09 +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 16:53:55 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 1ZKSjt-0004uv-Rm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 16:53:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35565 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZKSjt-0002SX-7G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:53:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56701) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZKSjf-0002SN-0j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:53:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZKSjZ-0002Pw-3o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:53:34 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60330) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZKSjY-0002PH-Tb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:53:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZKSjW-0004b1-KX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 16:53:26 +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 16:53:26 +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 16:53:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 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:qrxAMDxIr9pspwF0+dbI06HNi/k= 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:106113 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Navy Cheng writes: > >> What't the meaning of "^-characters" such as ^A, ^_, ^O ? I see >> this characters in some files. And How can I input this >> characters? Thanks. > > 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? Best, -- Jorge.