From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>
Cc: "'Help-Gnu-Emacs \(help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org\)'" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : The `^L' appeared in built-in help.
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 14:56:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SA2PR10MB44745FD3C62F803F692053A1F31B9@SA2PR10MB4474.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87im1o885z.fsf@zoho.eu>
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> >> Any hints for this phenomenon?
> >
> > A form-feed char (Control L) has from the outset been used
> > as an ASCII control character, to cause a new page to be
> > advance (fed) on old printers.
>
> But they are also transformed into buttons, a pretty exotic
> interactive feature, in `gnus-article-mode' buffers :)
> innit?
You can also customize how you want ^L chars displayed,
to appear as better page separators. See Pretty Control L:
https://emacswiki.org/emacs/PrettyControlL
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/pp-c-l.el
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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 [this message]
2021-07-06 15:56 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 17:04 ` Drew Adams
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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
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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
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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
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2021-07-22 12:14 ` tomas
2021-08-01 2:31 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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