GNU bug report logs - #13810
24.3.50; Docstring of `newline' is confusing

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:06:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.3.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: xfq.free <at> gmail.com, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, 13810 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13810: 24.3.50; Docstring of `newline' is confusing
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 20:29:53 +0200

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Cc: xfq.free <at> gmail.com,  stephen.berman <at> gmx.net,  13810 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 19:05:37 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 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.
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