bwild@foxi.uka.de (Bernd Wild) (11/20/90)
Is there a way to include control characters in an EMACS buffer or the .emacs Lisp source like <control> or <return> or <linefeed> or the octal representation of a character?? Bernd. ============================================================================== Bernd Wild bwild@fzi.uka.de Forschungszentrum Informatik FZI Dept. Technical Expert Systems and Robotics Haid-und-Neu-Strasse 10-14 D - 7500 Karlsruhe GERMANY Tel.: (+49 | 0) 721 / 6906-310 ==============================================================================
rbv@cypress.UUCP (Roger Vanderveen) (11/21/90)
In article <90.324.12:11:43@ira.uka.de> bwild@foxi.uka.de (Bernd Wild) writes: >Is there a way to include control characters in an EMACS buffer >or the .emacs Lisp source like <control> or <return> or <linefeed> >or the octal representation of a character?? Certainly. To enter control-A you can specify it in a string as "\001" or "\C-a". Similarly, you can specify "meta" characters as octal (z.B. meta k is "\353") or as "\M-k". -- =============================================================================== Roger Vanderveen rbv@cypress.UUCP or San Jose, CA USA rbv%cypress@daver.bungi.com ===============================================================================
kell@cs.albany.edu (Brian A. Kell) (11/21/90)
In article <599@cypress.UUCP>, rbv@cypress.UUCP (Roger Vanderveen) writes: > In article <90.324.12:11:43@ira.uka.de> bwild@foxi.uka.de (Bernd Wild) writes > >Is there a way to include control characters in an EMACS buffer > >or the .emacs Lisp source like <control> or <return> or <linefeed> > >or the octal representation of a character?? > Certainly. To enter control-A you can specify it in a string as "\001" or > "\C-a". You can also use the 'quoted-insert' function, usually bound to the ^Q key. Thus, to insert a ^L (page break) character into your buffer, you type: ^Q^L. Like this one (inserted using emacs): This is useful for, e.g., finding pairs of carriage returns between paragraphs by searching for ^Q^J^Q^J, where ^J is the newline character. Brian Kell SUNY/Albany Department of Computer Science brian@isadora.albany.edu bk7295@albnyvms.bitnet
mleisher@nmsu.edu (Mark Leisher) (11/21/90)
C-q followed by the control character you want. Example: C-qC-m inserts a <return> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- mleisher@nmsu.edu "I laughed. Mark Leisher I cried. Computing Research Lab I fell down. New Mexico State University It changed my life." Las Cruces, NM - Rich [Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille]