Re: What's the meaning of "^A" in emacs?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Emanuel Berg writes:

> Navy Cheng <navych@126.com> writes: 
>
> > What't the meaning of "^-characters" such as ^A, ^_, ^O ? I see 
> > this characters in some files. And How can I input this 
> > characters? Thanks. 
>
> When you say "input", do you mean to *insert* them as chars into 
> a buffer? If so, just hit C-q first.  But I don't think you 
> should do this too often (?).

Yes, why would someone use this? The only thing that I use is the 
"form feed" (^L) to divide sections in plain text documents and 
then be able to use C-x [ and C-x ] to move between pages.

Does someone know of any other "control character" use?

Best,
--
Jorge.