From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
To: Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>,
help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help.
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 09:27:28 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGP6POKhP1ty=YhDbdEJctMZ-ahophX-u3aweZ+E5L1fKbY_xw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6n084rz.fsf@zoho.eu>
On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 12:07 PM Emanuel Berg via Users list for the
GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hongyi Zhao wrote:
>
> > 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'
>
> I get ^L for both of them
Why ^ is used to represent Ctrl?
Hongyi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-20 1:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-06 2:34 The `^L' appeared in built-in help Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-06 2:46 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-07-06 2:53 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 14:56 ` Drew Adams
2021-07-06 15:56 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 17:04 ` Drew Adams
2021-07-06 17:12 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 2:51 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 3:44 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-06 4:06 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 8:26 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-06 8:31 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-06 9:12 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 9:40 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-06 10:06 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 11:07 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-06 11:22 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-06 11:55 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-06 12:09 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-06 16:13 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 16:12 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-07 3:03 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-13 3:06 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 16:12 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-07 1:40 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-13 3:07 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-18 6:34 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-19 0:27 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-20 1:27 ` Hongyi Zhao [this message]
2021-07-20 1:42 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-07-20 2:02 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-20 4:28 ` Drew Adams
2021-07-20 5:56 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-20 10:29 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-20 14:48 ` Drew Adams
2021-07-20 16:28 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-21 2:03 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-21 2:26 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-21 4:44 ` Drew Adams
2021-07-21 7:15 ` Regexp for matching control character, say, FORM FEED. (Was: Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help.) Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-21 17:08 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-07-22 1:13 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-22 1:28 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-22 1:39 ` Drew Adams
2021-07-22 1:42 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-22 3:52 ` Drew Adams
2021-07-22 4:14 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-22 8:04 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-22 13:56 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-22 14:38 ` tomas
2021-07-22 14:53 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-22 15:01 ` tomas
2021-07-22 15:21 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-22 22:07 ` [External] : Re: Regexp for matching control character, say, FORM FEED Michael Heerdegen
2021-07-23 1:09 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-22 17:07 ` [External] : Re: Regexp for matching control character, say, FORM FEED. (Was: Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help.) Drew Adams
2021-07-22 17:11 ` tomas
2021-08-01 2:41 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-22 8:06 ` tomas
2021-07-22 9:45 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-22 10:06 ` tomas
2021-07-22 10:27 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-22 12:14 ` tomas
2021-08-01 2:31 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 4:19 ` The `^L' appeared in built-in help 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2021-07-06 4:29 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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