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.
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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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