From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help,gmane.emacs.sources Subject: Re: What is the value of ^@ as character in elisp Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:05:00 -0600 Message-ID: References: <1183135633.707254.55740@n2g2000hse.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184137552 10922 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2007 07:05:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:05:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: gnu-emacs-sources@gnu.org To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 11 09:05:50 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I8WGe-0005RZ-IW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:05:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I8WGc-0004Zl-Ef for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:05:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I8WGI-0004ZS-9Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:05:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I8WGF-0004Yd-84 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:05:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I8WGF-0004YZ-4x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:05:19 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I8WGE-0001eQ-98 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:05:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1I8WG5-0002Pl-KO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:05:09 +0200 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:05:09 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:05:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Followup-To: gmane.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Macintosh/20070509) In-Reply-To: <1183135633.707254.55740@n2g2000hse.googlegroups.com> X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45582 gmane.emacs.sources:2322 Archived-At: Slavomir Kaslev wrote: > I am new to emacs lisp and I am writing several functions to make > emacs communicate with Autodesk Maya. > > I can't figure a way to get the value of ^@ as character in elisp. For > the moment I just copied the character in my .el source: > > (defcustom etom-prompt-regexp "^^@$" > "Regexp which matches the Maya's prompt." > :type 'regexp > :group 'etom) > > where ^@ is the character, not the string "^@". [gnu.emacs.sources is for posting code; questions such as this should be sent to gnu.emacs.help, which is where I'm cross-posting and directing follow-ups.] "^\000" See the Nonprinting Characters node of the Emacs Lisp manual, follow the link to the Character Type node, then its General Escape Syntax subnode. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA