From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why do I find ^L in elisp code? Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 09:43:26 -0700 Message-ID: References: <877djq7n8m.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31310"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 22 18:45:22 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 1lkUkc-0007vi-0O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 22 May 2021 18:45:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39204 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkUka-0001tb-5P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 22 May 2021 12:45:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59814) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>) id 1lkUir-0001WJ-Rw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 May 2021 12:43:34 -0400 Original-Received: from www458.your-server.de ([136.243.165.62]:55120) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>) id 1lkUip-00087N-4s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 May 2021 12:43:33 -0400 Original-Received: from sslproxy02.your-server.de ([78.47.166.47]) by www458.your-server.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92.3) (envelope-from <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>) id 1lkUim-000GIs-TT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 May 2021 18:43:28 +0200 Original-Received: from [47.44.249.130] (helo=localhost) by sslproxy02.your-server.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>) id 1lkUim-000PLl-89 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 May 2021 18:43:28 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <877djq7n8m.fsf@zoho.eu> X-Authenticated-Sender: 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (ClamAV 0.103.2/26178/Sat May 22 13:06:55 2021) Received-SPF: pass client-ip=136.243.165.62; envelope-from=2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com; helo=www458.your-server.de X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham 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:130069 Archived-At: On 2021-05-22 at 18:21:45 +0200, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: > 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE wrote: > > >> The Form Feed is hard to type. Most text editors do not > >> provide easy ways to type it ... > > > > To type Form Feed: press and hold the Control key (often > > marked CTRL), press the L key, then release both keys. > > In Emacs' notation, you usually see this as C-l. > > Most editors interpret this character as some sort of > > command to execute rather than an actual character to be > > inserted into the text. > > Uhm, my impression was that the OP didn't like them, now we > compete in telling him HOW to do it? My impression is that the OP made a false claim (that Form Feed is hard to type) and was met with a counterargument.