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From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What are the numbers on car of keymaps
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:07:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87txx83qwk.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5002E857.2090100@gmail.com

Daniel Hilst <danielhilst@gmail.com> writes:

> I, yet, do not understand keymaps... What are the number on car of
> keymaps and how do they map to keys
>
> Here is a sample http://pastebin.com/eAAytqx9

In emacs lisp, characters are integers.

So a key that correspond to a character will be represented by this
character (ie. the code of this character).

But other keys, or key chords will be represented by bigger integers,
that are not the code of any character.  You can find them with kbd or
edmacro-parse-keys.

   (kbd "C-M-a") --> [134217729]


-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.




      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-16 11:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-15 15:57 What are the numbers on car of keymaps Daniel Hilst
2012-07-15 23:31 ` Mark Simpson
2012-07-16 11:07 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]

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