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From: kell@cs.albany.edu (Brian A. Kell)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Control Characters
Keywords: control characters
Message-ID: <257@karp.albany.edu>
Date: 20 Nov 90 19:27:54 GMT
References: <90.324.12:11:43@ira.uka.de> <599@cypress.UUCP>
Organization: SUNY Albany, Comp Sci Dept, Albany, NY
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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