From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Special Characters
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 04:31:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mk68sk8.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3aa57c28-0bd8-45ab-bcf9-b68029b02889@googlegroups.com
Ian Baylis <ibay0918@gmail.com> writes:
> I have a file that has special characters in it.
> When I open the file in Emacs an ' is represented
> like: \200\231 or just \231
>
> What type of characters are they and is there a list
> of those characters I can use as reference for
> the future.
Move point, then use `describe-char' - I have
(defalias 'what-char 'describe-char)
(OT: should that be sharp-quoted as well?)
I think "what-char" is neat as it is faster to type
and consistent with `what-face' etc.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-11 2:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-11 1:37 Special Characters Ian Baylis
2015-08-11 2:31 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2015-08-11 2:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-08-11 3:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-08-11 16:42 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-12 2:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-08-12 7:56 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-13 1:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-08-11 2:41 ` Ian Zimmerman
2015-08-11 2:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.8111.1439261223.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-11 2:57 ` Ian Baylis
2015-08-11 3:04 ` Rusi
2015-08-11 17:21 ` Yuri Khan
[not found] ` <CAF3G9oc3WPg32mS3Zi4FxTyk55TEu8k0gY6CKCwhqHb=oGC0qg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-08-12 4:19 ` Yuri Khan
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