From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: usability problem of emacs describe-mode Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:57:44 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <3c82f009-0676-4e26-bd58-d6b8c1921935@n33g2000pri.googlegroups.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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235815309 16129 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2009 10:01:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:01:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 28 11:03:05 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 1LdM2B-0005Ke-Pf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:03:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42199 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LdM0q-0000j2-VK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:01:41 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs,comp.lang.lisp Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.175.142 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1235811465 32078 127.0.0.1 (28 Feb 2009 08:57:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:57:45 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.175.142; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167172 comp.emacs:97883 comp.lang.lisp:261954 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:00:28 -0500 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:62474 Archived-At: On Feb 25, 7:04 am, "Drew Adams" wrote: > > > * Get rid of convention of using ^L (ascii 12) for page break > > > marker. > > > 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. > The screenshot shows the default appearance. Thanks Drew. I have now tried your code and it's great. I also updated it here: =E2=80=A2 Usability Problems Of Emacs's Mode Documentation http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization_mode_doc.html Btw, when i insert a ^L, it automatically become displayed as horizontal line but with the overlay display =E2=80=9CSection (Printable Page)=E2=80=9D. Is there a way to turn that off? i.e. i just want a line. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84