From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#32562: 26; `read-char(-exclusive)' and `characterp' Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:07:27 +0300 Message-ID: <83in3cm08g.fsf@gnu.org> References: <<3cce8b54-2e85-49a2-84d8-386ded864148@default>>> <<83d0tlpteu.fsf@gnu.org>>> <<5f51bd06-84dd-47f5-a7da-b0c5814a274c@default>> <> <<3d6fb22f-de5a-4cce-bf49-023f2fc8388f@default>> <<83k1ntnu6l.fsf@gnu.org>> <4df2c3ce-9dcb-483c-b733-f91f54f33bce@default> <831sa0o49d.fsf@gnu.org> <4d4aa5cd-964c-41c5-ae72-24769afb0bd0@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536685893 23731 195.159.176.226 (11 Sep 2018 17:11:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:11:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 32562@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 11 19:11:28 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fzmCF-0005xK-NG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 19:11:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58726 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fzmEH-0001wt-2c for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:13:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57064) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fzm8z-0004Yf-6p for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:08:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fzm8v-0005h9-WC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:08:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:33057) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fzm8v-0005h4-SL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:08:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fzm8v-0000vX-MC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:08:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:08:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 32562 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 32562-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B32562.15366856513522 (code B ref 32562); Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:08:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 32562) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Sep 2018 17:07:31 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37315 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fzm8R-0000uk-6Z for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35609) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fzm8Q-0000uY-3S for 32562@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:07:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fzm8H-0005PQ-S0 for 32562@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:07:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44529) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fzm8H-0005PJ-NO; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:07:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1590 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fzm8G-0005iC-Su; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:07:21 -0400 In-reply-to: <4d4aa5cd-964c-41c5-ae72-24769afb0bd0@default> (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 11 Sep 2018 08:30:56 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:150224 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 08:30:56 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: 32562@debbugs.gnu.org > > I can't easily read them in the context of the surrounding material, > but I read the diff, at least. The context is given by the corresponding *.texi files. > I see "character event" referred to but not explicitly defined, as > such. The inline explanation is clear enough, I think. Why not > treat the first occurrence of "character event" as a defined term > (however that's done in texinfo, so that it ends up in Info quoted, > as "character event"), and create an index entry for it (plus an > entry "event, character")? (Perhaps you did that; I can't tell.) > > I think this might be the right occurrence to treat as defining > "character event": > > +keys, and function keys. Ordinary keys correspond to (possibly > +modified) characters; the events they generate are represented in Lisp > +as characters. The event type of a character event is the character > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > +itself (an integer), which might have some modifier bits set; see That's the definition you wanted, right there: it says that events can represent characters, and then talks about "character events" thus defined.