Re: last-input-event and X/non-X

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
> ((or (eq last-input-event 127) 
>      (eq last-input-event 'backspace)) 
>  (do-something)) 
>
> but that seems a bit clunky to me. Also, I'm not sure how well this
> will work with other character sets or encodings or on other
> platforms, like Windows. 

You might try looking up the event in `function-key-map', which is how
platform-specific things like <backspace> normally get translated.

e.g. 

    (when (equal (lookup-key function-key-map (vector last-input-event))
                 [127])
       (do something))
       
-Miles    
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