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Subject: Re: What is the value of ^@ as character in elisp
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Slavomir Kaslev <slavomir.kaslev@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I am new to emacs lisp and I am writing several functions to make
> emacs communicate with Autodesk Maya.
>
> I can't figure a way to get the value of ^@ as character in elisp. For
> the moment I just copied the character in my .el source:

In emacs lisp, characters are integers, like in C.

^@ is 0.

So to get the value of ^@, you can just write 0. For example:

(insert "Hello>" 0 "<world!")
; inserts:
Hello>=00<world!

(string 0) --> "=00"


> (defcustom etom-prompt-regexp "^^@$"
>   "Regexp which matches the Maya's prompt."
>   :type 'regexp
>   :group 'etom)

The Maya prompt is a null character???


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