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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: Non-character input events
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 06:49:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2427-Fri21Mar2003064937+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wkvfydbp5i.fsf@TheWorld.com> (message from Joe Fineman on 20 Mar 2003 18:21:13 -0500)

> From: Joe Fineman <jcf@TheWorld.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: 20 Mar 2003 18:21:13 -0500
> 
> When a routine I have written is expecting a character & instead sees
> (e.g.) one of the function keys on the keyboard, it complains that it
> has seen a non-character input event.  Presumably, therefore, Emacs
> has some way of recognizing such events.  Where is the documentation
> for that?  "Apropos" yields nothing, and info merely admits that they
> exist.

In general, when you need some information for writing ELisp, you
should first look in the ELisp manual.  Type "i input events RET" when
in that manual, and read the chapter you will land in.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-21  4:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-20 23:21 Non-character input events Joe Fineman
2003-03-21  4:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.3455.1048222598.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-03-24  1:59   ` Joe Fineman
2003-03-24  4:27     ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-03-24 16:48     ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found]     ` <mailman.3546.1048480451.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-03-25 23:38       ` Joe Fineman
2003-03-26  4:26         ` Eli Zaretskii

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