From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: usability problem of emacs describe-mode Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:04:04 -0800 Message-ID: <005501c9975a$4d631640$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <76fcf833-ad89-44f2-b227-e18295317ca2@p13g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235574313 2549 80.91.229.12 (25 Feb 2009 15:05:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:05:13 +0000 (UTC) To: , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 25 16:06:24 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LcLKg-0006qb-Or for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:05:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35016 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LcLJL-0005N6-Pw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:04:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LcLJ2-0005N1-WD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:04:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LcLJ1-0005Mp-B6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:04:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57684 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LcLJ1-0005Mm-6Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:04:15 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet12.oracle.com ([141.146.126.234]:38240) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LcLJ0-0002NH-GM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:04:14 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet13.oracle.com (acsinet13.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by acsinet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n1PF3uT2026584 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:03:57 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt704.oracle.com (acsmt704.oracle.com [141.146.40.82]) by acsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n1PF4EoM018778; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:04:15 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.88.101) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:04:03 +0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcmXLW1PZBJrLy0+RHeODL0E/JoZ+wALCXuA In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Source-IP: acsmt704.oracle.com [141.146.40.82] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090202.49A55DE6.0095:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62370 Archived-At: > > =A0 =A0 * Get rid of convention of using ^L (ascii 12) for page = break > > marker. >=20 > Is there a way to draw a sort of horizontal line for the ASCII 12 > symbol instead of printing "^L"? I'm talking about X version. Yes. Code: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/pp-c-l.el Description: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PrettyControlL You can customize the appearance.=20 The screenshot shows the default appearance.