From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help. Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2021 12:06:15 +0200 Message-ID: <87lf6j69k8.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87mtr0889q.fsf@zoho.eu> <87a6n084rz.fsf@zoho.eu> <87czrv7qlm.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30960"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:6hfpU1/ezJRvFZ+t4WndtWWdpMo= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 06 12:47:24 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m0ibr-0007mp-1j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 12:47:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52240 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m0ibp-0004Le-G4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 06:47:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43430) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m0hyF-00035N-3Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 06:06:27 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:39090) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m0hyC-0004qW-PD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 06:06:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m0hyA-0006ev-8z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 12:06:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131555 Archived-At: Hongyi Zhao wrote: > The screenshot is generated by `C-x 8 RET c', but `M-x > describe-char RET' for the result character says that it > should be input by `C-x 8 RET 6', as you can see in the > screenshot. So, I'm confused on this problem. Here are mine, C-x 8 RET 6 RET and C-x 8 RET c RET and M-x insert-char RET form feed (ff) RET The char that looks like ^F is: position: 894 of 959 (93%), restriction: <544-960>, column: 0 character: C-f (displayed as C-f) (codepoint 6, #o6, #x6) charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV)) code point in charset: 0x06 script: latin syntax: . which means: punctuation to input: type "C-x 8 RET 6" or "C-x 8 RET ACKNOWLEDGE" buffer code: #x06 file code: #x06 (encoded by coding system utf-8-emacs) display: terminal code #x06 hardcoded face: escape-glyph Character code properties: customize what to show old-name: ACKNOWLEDGE general-category: Cc (Other, Control) There are text properties here: fontified t and the char that looks like ^L is: position: 950 of 1750 (54%), restriction: <544-1751>, column: 0 character: C-l (displayed as C-l) (codepoint 12, #o14, #xc) charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV)) code point in charset: 0x0C script: latin syntax: which means: whitespace to input: type "C-x 8 RET c" or "C-x 8 RET FORM FEED (FF)" buffer code: #x0C file code: #x0C (encoded by coding system utf-8-emacs) display: terminal code #x0C hardcoded face: escape-glyph Character code properties: customize what to show old-name: FORM FEED (FF) general-category: Cc (Other, Control) There are text properties here: fontified t -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal