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From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why do I find ^L in elisp code?
Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 19:33:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YKkyQmqxcU8kLRR8@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-c606e758-26e8-4982-bb93-06d439ad60e0-1621698465204@3c-app-mailcom-bs14>

* Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> [2021-05-22 18:49]:
> Is it still useful in new code? 
> 
> The Form Feed is hard to type.  Most text editors do not provide easy ways to type it.
> Could emacs cease using invisible glyphs as they could be are confusing and hard to read
> and type?  Sometimes I see an ASCII art box.

\f or ^L is not invisible in Emacs, it is visible, and usually red
highlighted, quite clear.

It is easy to type by using quoted-insert: C-q C-l

There are many various characters. Majority of people will never
change their keybindings, but some people will change it
extensively. I am using these kinds of ⟦ ⟧ brackets.

One can get it with "C-x 8 RET MATHEMATICAL LEFT WHITE SQUARE BRACKET"
but I have it on key bindings.

𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆, 𝒐𝒓
𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓼𝓮 𝓪𝓼 𝔀𝓮𝓵𝓵. 𝙾𝚛 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚎.

In online discussions that is quite handy when there is no other
markup method.

-- 
Jean

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-22 16:33 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
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       ` Jean Louis [this message]
2021-05-22 17:02       ` Why do I find ^L in elisp code? 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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