From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 3b41141708: Expose the name of an event's input device to Lisp
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2022 08:56:38 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bkx9kb7d.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83fsmm8h0n.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 09 Apr 2022 17:31:52 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2022 21:37:56 +0800
>>
>> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>
>> > Not necessarily, it could be something like:
>> >
>> > (defun event-device (e)
>> > (when (consp e)
>> > (alist-get 'device (nthcdr 3 e))))
>> >
>> > But I agree that the current representation of events is problematic.
>> > We should make it more regular and self-descriptive, either based on an
>> > alist as above or have every event come with some kind of "class" which
>> > then describes the name&position of every accompanying data.
>>
>> Unfortunately, our current representation is basically set in stone.
>> There is too much Lisp out there that relies on the current form of Lisp
>> events, and simply finding all that code will be a serious chore.
>
> We could keep the form, but add additional members to the list, no?
That's simply too confusing, where different events have very different
indexes into the list to get the same property.
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2022-04-07 14:05 ` master 3b41141708: Expose the name of an event's input device to Lisp Stefan Monnier
2022-04-07 23:31 ` Po Lu
2022-04-07 23:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-08 0:07 ` Po Lu
2022-04-08 6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-08 6:08 ` Po Lu
2022-04-08 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-08 7:36 ` Po Lu
2022-04-08 11:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-08 11:31 ` Po Lu
2022-04-08 12:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-08 12:35 ` Po Lu
2022-04-09 6:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-09 9:06 ` Po Lu
2022-04-09 9:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-09 9:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-09 10:03 ` Po Lu
2022-04-09 11:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-09 11:44 ` Po Lu
2022-04-09 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-09 16:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-09 16:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-09 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-09 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-09 17:52 ` Brian Cully
2022-04-09 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-10 0:54 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 1:46 ` Brian Cully
2022-04-10 2:11 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 2:45 ` Brian Cully
2022-04-10 3:30 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 0:37 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 5:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-10 6:09 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 6:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-10 7:31 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 8:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-10 8:50 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 9:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-10 9:25 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 11:15 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 15:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-11 1:02 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 11:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-10 11:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-10 0:48 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 6:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-10 6:17 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-10 7:01 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-10 8:42 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 9:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-10 12:51 ` Brian Cully
2022-04-10 13:21 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 18:08 ` Brian Cully
2022-04-11 0:58 ` Po Lu
2022-04-11 1:08 ` Brian Cully
2022-04-11 2:00 ` Po Lu
2022-04-11 2:03 ` Po Lu
2022-04-11 2:21 ` Brian Cully
2022-04-11 3:12 ` Po Lu
2022-04-11 4:11 ` Brian Cully
2022-04-11 5:20 ` Po Lu
2022-04-11 11:33 ` Brian Cully
2022-04-11 14:09 ` Po Lu
2022-04-11 16:26 ` Brian Cully
2022-04-11 10:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-10 12:44 ` Brian Cully
2022-04-10 13:14 ` Po Lu
2022-04-08 14:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-09 0:24 ` Po Lu
2022-04-09 2:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-09 3:17 ` Po Lu
2022-04-09 13:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-09 13:37 ` Po Lu
2022-04-09 14:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-10 0:58 ` Po Lu
2022-04-09 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-10 0:56 ` Po Lu [this message]
2022-04-10 6:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-10 6:23 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 6:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-10 7:37 ` Po Lu
2022-04-10 8:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-09 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
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