From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help. Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2021 06:06:40 +0200 Message-ID: <87a6n084rz.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87mtr0889q.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8111"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Of7zBhEX54DFyHDKtO7bMl5zDCY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 06 06:07:24 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m0cMm-0001wR-7R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 06:07:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52928 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m0cMk-0000hb-Nz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 00:07:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44116) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m0cMH-0000hJ-SK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 00:06:53 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:46244) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m0cMF-0004mw-QJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 00:06:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m0cMB-0001MS-Uv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 06:06:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131538 Archived-At: Hongyi Zhao wrote: > But `M-x describe-char RET' for `^L' in scratch buffer shows > the following: > > to input: type "C-x 8 RET c" or "C-x 8 RET FORM FEED (FF)" > > And the above-mentioned two type input sequences will > generated different characters: > > "C-x 8 RET c" ---> `^F' > "C-x 8 RET FORM FEED (FF)" ---> `^L' I get ^L for both of them > Are there some built-in Emacs commands for searching this > mail archive conveniently? Yes, Gnus and Gmane, the mailing list help-gnu-emacs is then, as an NNTP group, called gmane.emacs.help. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal