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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: schwab@suse.de, 32562@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32562: 26; `read-char(-exclusive)' and `characterp'
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 12:48:22 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4df2c3ce-9dcb-483c-b733-f91f54f33bce@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<83k1ntnu6l.fsf@gnu.org>>

> > > A character with modifiers doesn't satisfy characterp, but it is still a
> > > character (which read-char can return).
> >
> > Yes, well, that's what I found a bit confusing wrt the
> > doc and function names. It wasn't (isn't?) too clear
> > just what we mean by "character", in that case.
> 
> I made the documentation say "character event" where it matters.

I imagine that you made it clearer (I don't have the new doc).

But see what I replied to Andreas. It seems like we talk in some
places about reading a character even if what gets read might
not be `characterp'. "Character event" doesn't clarify that, for me.

Seems like the doc (but I don't have time now to search it)
doesn't distinguish "character" meaning something that is
`characterp' from other meanings of it (not sure what those
are, but apparently `read-char' can return such things).

It's not clear to me, at least. Why isn't `chararcterp' necessary
and sufficient for testing whether something is a character?





  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-10 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <<<3cce8b54-2e85-49a2-84d8-386ded864148@default>
     [not found] ` <<<83d0tlpteu.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]   ` <<5f51bd06-84dd-47f5-a7da-b0c5814a274c@default>
     [not found]     ` <<83r2i1o3dr.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-09-10 14:57       ` bug#32562: 26; `read-char(-exclusive)' and `characterp' Drew Adams
     [not found]     ` <<mvmtvmxctnm.fsf@suse.de>
     [not found]       ` <<3d6fb22f-de5a-4cce-bf49-023f2fc8388f@default>
     [not found]         ` <<83k1ntnu6l.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-09-10 19:48           ` Drew Adams [this message]
2018-09-11  7:57             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-11 15:30               ` Drew Adams
2018-09-11 17:07                 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <<<5f51bd06-84dd-47f5-a7da-b0c5814a274c@default>
     [not found]     ` <<<mvmtvmxctnm.fsf@suse.de>
     [not found]       ` <<<3d6fb22f-de5a-4cce-bf49-023f2fc8388f@default>
     [not found]         ` <<<83k1ntnu6l.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]           ` <<4df2c3ce-9dcb-483c-b733-f91f54f33bce@default>
     [not found]             ` <<831sa0o49d.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]               ` <<4d4aa5cd-964c-41c5-ae72-24769afb0bd0@default>
     [not found]                 ` <<83in3cm08g.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-09-11 17:22                   ` Drew Adams
2018-09-11 18:34                     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <<<<3cce8b54-2e85-49a2-84d8-386ded864148@default>
     [not found] ` <<<<83d0tlpteu.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]   ` <<<<5f51bd06-84dd-47f5-a7da-b0c5814a274c@default>
     [not found]     ` <<<<mvmtvmxctnm.fsf@suse.de>
     [not found]       ` <<<<3d6fb22f-de5a-4cce-bf49-023f2fc8388f@default>
     [not found]         ` <<<<83k1ntnu6l.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]           ` <<<4df2c3ce-9dcb-483c-b733-f91f54f33bce@default>
     [not found]             ` <<<831sa0o49d.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]               ` <<<4d4aa5cd-964c-41c5-ae72-24769afb0bd0@default>
     [not found]                 ` <<<83in3cm08g.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]                   ` <<eedf9125-6ece-44cb-a01b-b8da3d707e8c@default>
     [not found]                     ` <<83ftyfnarp.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-09-11 18:58                       ` Drew Adams
2018-09-11 19:03                         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <<3cce8b54-2e85-49a2-84d8-386ded864148@default>
     [not found] ` <<83d0tlpteu.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-09-10 13:43   ` Drew Adams
2018-09-10 14:04     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 14:29     ` Andreas Schwab
2018-09-10 15:01       ` Drew Adams
2018-09-10 17:22         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-28 20:39 Drew Adams
2018-08-28 20:51 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-08-28 21:24   ` Drew Adams
2018-08-28 22:27     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-10 10:01     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10  9:56 ` Eli Zaretskii

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