From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7631: 24.0.50; inconsistency in event-convert-list and event-basic-type Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:01:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292265122 22945 80.91.229.12 (13 Dec 2010 18:32:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:32:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7631@debbugs.gnu.org To: Don March Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 13 19:31:58 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSDBm-0003KF-C3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:31:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41671 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PSD5W-0001pl-Hv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:25:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43891 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PSD2g-0000cx-Ky for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:22:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSD2f-0006oJ-2T for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:22:34 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:51763) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSD2e-0006oE-N0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:22:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSCd0-0002wJ-2q; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:56:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:56:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7631 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7631-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7631.129226290711230 (code B ref 7631); Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:56:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7631) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Dec 2010 17:55:07 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSCc6-0002v4-W3 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:55:07 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181] helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSCc4-0002ua-Ds for 7631@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:55:05 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtUJALDuBU1FpZA//2dsb2JhbACiaYEcecMChUoEhGSOBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,336,1288584000"; d="scan'208";a="85319272" Original-Received: from 69-165-144-63.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.144.63]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 13 Dec 2010 13:01:15 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id DE58A58CC2; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:01:14 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Don March's message of "Mon, 13 Dec 2010 01:22:32 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:56:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:42494 Archived-At: > (event-convert-list '(t)) ; => 116 > There's good reason to want this to eval to t (i.e. the symbol, not > the char). Could you explain what is this good reason? In Emacs, events corresponding to keys that are associated with a characters are represented by an Elisp char, whereas other events are represented by symbols. AFAIK event-convert-list is mostly used to convert XEmacs style (define-key map [(control x)] 'foo) to (define-key map ?\C-x 'foo) so this single-char symbol conversion to a character is useful. Maybe you can explain to us the problem it causes you. Stefan