From: Joe Fineman <jcf@TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Non-character input events
Date: 23 Mar 2003 20:59:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wkvfy9iky9.fsf@TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.3455.1048222598.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:
> > 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.
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.
--
--- Joe Fineman jcf@TheWorld.com
||: There's no foolishness like old foolishness. :||
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2003-03-20 23:21 Non-character input events Joe Fineman
2003-03-21 4:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2003-03-24 1:59 ` Joe Fineman [this message]
2003-03-24 4:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-03-24 16:48 ` Kevin Rodgers
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2003-03-25 23:38 ` Joe Fineman
2003-03-26 4:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
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