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- From: dodd@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu (Lawrence R. Dodd)
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- Subject: Re: Control Characters
- Date: 21 Nov 92 07:09:57
- Organization: Dept of Chemical Engineering, Polytechnic Univ, NY, USA
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- In-reply-to: scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu's message of Sat, 21 Nov 1992 07:34:00 GMT
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- >>>>> "Sebastian" == Sebastian C Sears <scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu> writes:
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- Sebastian> Sorry if this is elementary or repetitive, but I've asked a lot of
- Sebastian> people, including consultants and haven't gotten an answer. If there's
- Sebastian> a FAQ for this group, point me to it.
- Sebastian>
- Sebastian> I'm trying to find out how to insert control characters into emacs
- Sebastian> code. In other words, how would you insert a ^L into a file to make
- Sebastian> it pause when scrolling etc. etc.
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- C-q C-l
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- C-q is --
- quoted-insert:
- Read next input character and insert it.
- Useful for inserting control characters.
- You may also type up to 3 octal digits, to insert a character with that code
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