From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: linefeed ^L symbol Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:32:03 +0200 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <877ijkx6i4.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197474139 19824 80.91.229.12 (12 Dec 2007 15:42:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:42:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 12 16:42:30 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 1J2TiM-000810-Bg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:41:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2Ti4-0007rs-FQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:41:20 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!news.banetele.no!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3tjhmhoaV2Lz2PcqrKqkLAjtp2I= Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.1.205.36 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=e6G9ZY; \PBj5kL0JZ2L^Mjgl4=h[MC00Xno<^f2O0I`OlTc`fBge5>mm Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154617 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:50040 Archived-At: On 11 Dec 2007 16:41:56 GMT, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I've just reinstalled Emacs 22.1 from source on Debian Lenny. I notice > now that ^L shows up here and there, presumably where a newline should > be. Does this mean I've messed something up something in the config? I > shouldn't be seeing escape characters like this should I? > > Examples: > From the Paragraph Start customize variable window: > Paragraph Start: Hide Value \|[ ]*$\|.* wrote:$\|.* wrote:$ > > The actual value of this variable is: > "\f\\|[ ]*$\\|.* wrote:$\\|.* wrote:$\\|.* wrote:$\\|.* wrote:$" > > I'm also confused as to why I should have \f in there to begin with, > since I think Unix-like systems use \n instead? You are a bit confused. ^L is not `line feed', but a different character (with ASCII code 12 instead of 10). It is commonly represented by the C-like escape sequence "\f" in strings... To see more information about the ^L character, type in a scratch buffer the following: C-q C-l Then move the point to that character and type `C-u C-x =' :)