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| From: | Emanuel Berg |
| Subject: | Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help. |
| Date: | Tue, 06 Jul 2021 04:51:13 +0200 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Hongyi Zhao wrote: > 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? This was discussed here not long ago! See if you can grep the archives! [1] They are used to delimit pages! M-x insert-char RET FORM FEED (FF) RET [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/ -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal
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