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From: | Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo |
Subject: | Re: What's the meaning of "^A" in emacs? |
Date: | Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:23:26 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Drew Adams writes:
> When you say "input", do you mean to *insert* them as chars > into a buffer? If so, just hit C-q first. But I don't think > you should do this too often (?). Yes, why would someone use this? The only thing that I use is the "form feed" (^L) to divide sections in plain text documents and then be able to use C-x [ and C-x ] to move between pages. Does someone know of any other "control character" use?It is common to use `C-j' when you interactively enter a regexp that contains a newline char (Control J). This is because (vanilla) Emacs binds `C-j' in the minibuffer to a command other than self-insertion.
Yes, I had forgotten that one. It is very handy not only in regexp but when using command query-replace.
Another use is C-q <space>, for writing a space with ido or when auto-fill-mode is on and you want not to break the line.
-- Jorge.
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