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From: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: control characters
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Date: 10 May 89 17:54:13 GMT
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In article <8905081336.AA00805@csseq.tamu.edu>, richard@CSSEQ writes:
|   Somewhere in the distant past I read about a variable that would 
| turn off the display of control characters in a buffer...

Do you mean (describe-variable 'echo-keystrokes) =>

% echo-keystrokes's value is 1
% 
% Documentation:
% *Nonzero means echo unfinished commands after this many seconds of pause.

or (describe-variable 'ctl-arrow) =>

% ctl-arrow's value is t
% 
% Documentation:
% *Non-nil means display control chars with uparrow.
% Nil means use backslash and octal digits.
% Automatically becomes local when set in any fashion.

Or something else?

Curious...
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