From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Will Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Meta-Characters, Special Characters Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 14:58:20 +0200 Message-ID: <5c2mbdF2ung8hU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180446041 27913 80.91.229.12 (29 May 2007 13:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 13:40:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 29 15:40:40 2007 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 1Ht1wE-0001w6-4e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 15:40:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ht1wD-0008QE-Io for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 09:40:37 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Trace: individual.net BMccbvMmK6Da4jYXIspzuQfOGMOJitZkGo0TM0ALNFlOFYhSUU User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148942 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:44530 Archived-At: Hi, how can I find the an overview on how to enter meta-characters (e.g. esc, return, linefeed, tab, ...) a) in a regular buffer b) in the minibuffer when using standard search/replace-functions c) in the minibuffer when using search/replace-functions using regular expressions d) in the .emacs file when defining keybindings As far as I can see in all those situations entering meta-characters is addressed in a different way which I find confusing, e.g.: a) _or_ C-q b) C-q C-[, C-q C-m, C-q C-j, C-q C-i c) \e, \r, \n, \t d) (define-key [(meta c) (control c) (tab c)] "This is confusing!") Furthermore, they are displayed in a different way,e.g. - actual, visible layout - ^E, ^M, ^L, ^I - Octals I would be happy about pages summarizing such information. Any references available? Thanks in advance, Will