Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help.

[Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 12:07 PM Emanuel Berg via Users list for the
GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> 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

Strange. See the screenshot in attachment.

>
> > 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.
>
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Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Vocational University of Technology and Engineering
NO. 552 North Gangtie Road, Xingtai, China

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