From: Joseph Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: [ELISP] How do you turn an array of chars into a string?
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:01:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wrsae07o.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> (raw)
The elisp manual has this example, using "kbd" to convert a (relatively)
readable string into the "internal Emacs key representation":
(global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-\\") 'next-line)
(global-set-key [?\C-x ?\C-\\] 'next-line)
What's the inverse of kbd? What if you want to convert an array-of-chars
into a string?
Things like this seem to work, but only for very simple chars:
(mapconcat 'string [?c ?a ?t] "") ;; => "cat"
Motivation: see the first FIXME in footnote.el, on footnote-prefix.
next reply other threads:[~2010-08-01 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-01 17:01 Joseph Brenner [this message]
2010-08-01 21:52 ` [ELISP] How do you turn an array of chars into a string? Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-08-01 23:07 ` Joseph Brenner
2010-08-02 21:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-02 21:55 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-08-02 22:41 ` Johan Bockgård
2010-08-02 22:57 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-08-03 9:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-03 20:57 ` Joseph Brenner
2010-08-04 9:27 ` Stefan Monnier
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