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RE: [External] : Re: Commands to insert a heading and a new page


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: Commands to insert a heading and a new page
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 20:32:03 +0000

> >> > (newline)
> >> > (insert ?\f
> >> > (newline))
> >
> > `C-q C-j C-l C-j` does the same thing.
> >
> > Get to know `C-q'.
> > Get to know the ASCII control chars.
> 
> Yes.  Your instructions can be a little confusing to new users.  Taken
> literally, they won’t work.  New users should read that the key
> sequences are:
> 
> C-j
> C-q C-l
> C-j

Actually, that's not right.  But neither
was what I wrote. ;-(  This is correct:

C-q C-j
C-q C-l
C-q C-j

C-j is often bound, even by default in
vanilla Emacs (`emacs -Q'), to commands
that do other things, besides insert a
newline char.

E.g.: In `emacs-lisp-mode' it's bound
to `electric-newline-and-maybe-indent'.
In *scratch* it's bound to
`eval-print-last-sexp'.

If you want to insert a newline char
then use `C-q C-l'.  Don't use C-l.

> Thank you for writing the ‘pp-c-l’ library (pp-c-l.el).

De rien.

> 1. Is this library provided as a package?  If so, can you provide the
> name of the archive?  It is not available from either...

It's a Lisp file, `pp-c-l.el'.  The doc page
I mentioned points to the file, but here's
the direct URL:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/pp-c-l.el

Just (require 'pp-c-l), after putting the file in
your `load-path`.  Nothing else is needed.

> 2. I added "-*- lexical-binding: t; -*-" to
> the first line

No reason to do that, here.

> and compiled the file using Emacs 29.3.  The compiler
> reported the following:

You can ignore the byte-compiler warnings.
You see them because the library's compatible
with older Emacs versions.

> >> ;; +---------------------+
> >> ;; | This is not a bluff |
> >> ;; +---------------------+
> >
> > See also library boxquote.el:
> >
> > https://github.com/davep/boxquote.el
>
> This library, ‘boxquote’ is available as package in the ‘melpa-stable’
> archive, listed above, so it can be easily installed, updated, or
> un-installed.

It can also be easily...just by downloading it
(a single Lisp file) FROM the GIT repo whose
URL I gave TO a directory in your `load-path'.

Here's the direct URL to the file:

https://github.com/davep/boxquote.el/raw/main/boxquote.el

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