From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Non-character input events Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:48:07 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E7F36C7.5030001@ihs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048524669 30170 80.91.224.249 (24 Mar 2003 16:51:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:51:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 24 17:51:08 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18xV9g-0007oE-00 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:50:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xV9e-0003X3-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:50:34 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 45 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1048524487 78569363 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111350 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7852 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7852 Joe Fineman wrote: > Which Elisp manual is that? I have downloaded both the version 21.2 > manual and the version 20.3 manual from the Gnu Web site, and each > contains only one bare mention of input events. Even the venerable 19.34 elisp manual contains this: File: elisp, Node: Input Events, Next: Reading Input, Prev: Command Loop Info, Up: Command Loop Input Events ============ The Emacs command loop reads a sequence of "input events" that represent keyboard or mouse activity. The events for keyboard activity are characters or symbols; mouse events are always lists. This section describes the representation and meaning of input events in detail. - Function: eventp OBJECT This function returns non-`nil' if OBJECT is an input event. * Menu: * Keyboard Events:: Ordinary characters-keys with symbols on them. * Function Keys:: Function keys-keys with names, not symbols. * Mouse Events:: Overview of mouse events. * Click Events:: Pushing and releasing a mouse button. * Drag Events:: Moving the mouse before releasing the button. * Button-Down Events:: A button was pushed and not yet released. * Repeat Events:: Double and triple click (or drag, or down). * Motion Events:: Just moving the mouse, not pushing a button. * Focus Events:: Moving the mouse between frames. * Misc Events:: Other events window systems can generate. * Event Examples:: Examples of the lists for mouse events. * Classifying Events:: Finding the modifier keys in an event symbol. Event types. * Accessing Events:: Functions to extract info from events. * Strings of Events:: Special considerations for putting keyboard character events in a string. -- Kevin Rodgers