From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>,
"help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: Commands to insert a heading and a new page
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 15:49:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB54881B24C2DC44A841A27A9AF3382@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87plvfxd6l.fsf@dataswamp.org>
> > A simple function to insert a form-feed character:
And two newline chars.
> > (defun new-page ()
> > "Insert a page separator into the current buffer."
> > (interactive)
> > (newline)
> > (insert ?\f);Form feed is \f or Ctrl-l or ASCII
> 012
> > (newline))
`C-q C-j C-l C-j` does the same thing.
Get to know `C-q'.
Get to know the ASCII control chars.
> It is not used so often, why and when do you use it?
Sure it is. Separate text/code pieces,
visually and for navigation.
See (emacs) `Pages':
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Pages.html
And customize page separator:
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PrettyControlL
> ;; +---------------------+
> ;; | This is not a bluff |
> ;; +---------------------+
See also library boxquote.el:
https://github.com/davep/boxquote.el
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-31 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-26 9:16 Commands to insert a heading and a new page Heime
2024-03-27 22:48 ` tpeplt
2024-03-28 3:12 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-03-31 15:49 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2024-03-31 18:40 ` [External] : " tpeplt
2024-03-31 20:32 ` Drew Adams
2024-04-01 2:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-04-01 16:53 ` Drew Adams
2024-04-01 1:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-03-28 9:42 ` Heime
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