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From: 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why do I find ^L in elisp code?
Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 09:18:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YKku8GQ4T7vA5uQa@scrozzle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-c606e758-26e8-4982-bb93-06d439ad60e0-1621698465204@3c-app-mailcom-bs14>

On 2021-05-22 at 17:47:45 +0200,
Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> wrote:

> The Form Feed is hard to type.  Most text editors do not provide easy
> ways to type it ...

To type Form Feed:  press and hold the Control key (often marked CTRL),
press the L key, then release both keys.  In Emacs' notation, you
usually see this as C-l.  Most editors interpret this character as some
sort of command to execute rather than an actual character to be
inserted into the text.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-22 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-22 14:53 Why do I find ^L in elisp code? Christopher Dimech
2021-05-22 15:05 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-22 15:12   ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-22 15:19     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-22 19:14   ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-22 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-22 15:17 ` Omar Polo
2021-05-22 15:22 ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2021-05-22 15:30   ` arthur miller
2021-05-22 15:41     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-22 15:47     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-22 15:58       ` Omar Polo
2021-05-22 16:51         ` arthur miller
2021-05-22 19:15         ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-22 16:18       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-22 16:18       ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE [this message]
2021-05-22 16:21         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-22 16:43           ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2021-05-22 17:06             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-22 16:27       ` arthur miller
2021-05-22 17:32         ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-22 18:27           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-22 18:32             ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-22 18:40               ` music with/from Emacs (was: Re: Why do I find ^L in elisp code?) Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-22 21:09                 ` music with/from Emacs Arthur Miller
2021-05-22 21:45                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-22 21:53                     ` Arthur Miller
2021-05-22 21:59                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-24  1:32                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-24 11:44                         ` Arthur Miller
2021-05-22 16:33       ` Why do I find ^L in elisp code? Jean Louis
2021-05-22 17:02       ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-05-22 20:08         ` Jean Louis
2021-05-22 20:18           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-22 20:25             ` Jean Louis
2021-05-23  6:42               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-23 19:14                 ` Unicode fonts - " Jean Louis
2021-05-23 19:42                   ` Input method generator package - Re: Unicode fonts Jean Louis
2021-05-24  8:00                   ` Unicode fonts - Re: Why do I find ^L in elisp code? Yuri Khan
2021-05-24  8:18                     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-24  8:48                     ` Jean Louis
2021-05-24  9:38                       ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-24 14:06                       ` Yuri Khan
2021-05-24 14:24                         ` Jean Louis
2021-05-24 14:36                           ` Yuri Khan
2021-05-24 17:39                             ` Jean Louis
2021-05-24 15:02                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-24 17:31                             ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-24 18:05                             ` Jean Louis
2021-05-24 18:12                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-24 20:19                                 ` Jean Louis

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