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From: Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: customize type spec not being followed?
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 04:05:53 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c2e5c53-e207-4909-8201-df72b2ced5e5@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.6291.1514116912.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

On Sunday, December 24, 2017 at 5:31:55 PM UTC+5:30, Philipp Stephani wrote:
> Rusi  schrieb am So., 24. Dez. 2017 um 12:50 Uhr:
> 
> >
> > So my question: When the type says character why does it show as integer?
> >
> 
> Because characters are integers. See
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Character-Type.html
> .

In (info "(elisp)simple types")
we find

‘character’
     The value must be a character code.  A character code is actually
     an integer, but this type shows the value by inserting the
     character in the buffer, rather than by showing the number.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-24 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-24 11:46 customize type spec not being followed? Rusi
2017-12-24 12:01 ` Philipp Stephani
     [not found] ` <mailman.6291.1514116912.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-12-24 12:05   ` Rusi [this message]
2017-12-24 12:34     ` Philipp Stephani

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