Subject: Re: bug#13810: 24.3.50; Docstring of `newline' is confusing

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 20:29:53 +0200

> From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 19:05:37 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Linefeed is not RET, nor "newline".  It's C-j.
> 
> Where is this documented?

It's that character's official name, and supposed to be "common
knowledge".  Go to the end of any line in an Emacs buffer, and type
"C-u C-x =" -- Emacs will show the name of the character in the *Help*
buffer it pops up.