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Oh, so that's why C-m and C-j make a line break in Emacs, and C-g will make a sound if you press it one extra time.
by xyzzyz 10y ago
Oh, so that's why C-m and C-j make a line break in Emacs, and C-g will make a sound if you press it one extra time.
- i336_ 10y ago^V will put DOS (and cmd.exe) into "next character is literal" mode, so "echo ^V^G" will make a beep. I think you needed ANSI.SYS loaded for it to work though (?). Speaking of DOS, I've never forgotten that BEL is ASCII 7, so ALT+007 (ALT+7?) will happily insert it into things like text editors. I remember it showed up as a •. I'm not quite sure why.