Re: Printing elisp char literals

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>]

>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <David.Kastrup@t-online.de> writes:

    David> "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
    David> writes:

    >> Let's say I have an integer.  How can I check whether it's a
    >> char ?

Doesn't the optional argument to char-valid-p do the right thing?

And pretty clearly `event-modifiers' extracts the modifiers into a
Lispy format.

    David> IIRC, XEmacs has sort of an opaque character representation
    David> type, so it might be worth borrowing an idea or two from
    David> them in this regard before reinventing the wheel.  Stephen,
    David> any idea of whether something might apply here?

Besides the fact that it looks like these APIs already exist, even for
more complex cases I don't think so.  While I believe the XEmacs model
is a good one, it took several years to shake out many bugs due to
errors in porting code from the old "characters are a subset of
integers" model.

This would best be done in combination with a large revision of basic
Mule functionality, such as in emacs-unicode, if it's considered
desirable.


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