Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!daver!cypress!rbv From: rbv@cypress.UUCP (Roger Vanderveen) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Control Characters Keywords: control characters Message-ID: <599@cypress.UUCP> Date: 20 Nov 90 16:28:28 GMT References: <90.324.12:11:43@ira.uka.de> Organization: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation Lines: 15 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 or or >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 ===============================================================================