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


From: Hongyi Zhao
Subject: The `^L' appeared in built-in help.
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 10:34:36 +0800

I noticed so many `^L' appeared in Emacs' built-in help. According to
the ascii document shown below, this should mean '\f' (form feed):

$ man ascii | grep ' L$'
       014   12    0C    FF  '\f' (form feed)        114   76    4C    L

But I also noticed that this control character is not used evenly
throughout the document.

Any hints for this phenomenon?

Regards
-- 
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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