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- From: steibel@venus.cs.umbc.edu (David M. Steibel)
- Subject: Re: Control Characters
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.032228.11889@umbc3.umbc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
- References: <1992Nov21.073400.21087@news.columbia.edu> <HOLLEN.92Nov23115153@peg.megatek.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 03:22:28 GMT
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- hollen@megatek.UUCP (Dion Hollenbeck) writes:
- >> scs8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Sebastian C Sears) said:
- >>
- >> I'm trying to find out how to insert control characters into
- >> emacs code. In other words, how would you insert a ^L into a
- >> file to make it pause when scrolling etc. etc.
- >
- > Use C-q (quoted-insert) and then type in whatever control character you
- > want. After typing in 1 character, you be back in regular mode and if
- > you want to insert a second control character, you need to use C-q for
- > every one you insert.
-
- Unfortunately, control-q is used for flow control on many computer
- systems. Personally, as a work around, I have added the following
- line to my .emacs file.
-
- (defun c-l () (insert "\C-l"))
-
- Then I type escape-escape and the 5 characters "(c-l)". I use this
- all the time to control paging.
-
- --
- David M. Steibel; Author of the Demacs FAQ; Internet: steibel@cs.umbc.edu
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