From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Get char at point Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 11:57:28 +0200 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <87tynyig6v.fsf@fh-trier.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291846792 22705 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 22:19:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 22:19:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 23:19:48 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQSMN-0003e2-My for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:19:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42938 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQSMI-0001I1-Qu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:19:34 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.stw-bonn.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1279360648 14078 143.93.54.11 (17 Jul 2010 09:57:28 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:57:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:89sgzgBR1mbU0xKyejJQcqGmwEo= Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-200-138.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179806 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76118 Archived-At: TheFlyingDutchman writes: > Thanks! I believe I did look at the char* functions. If it had been > named char-at I would have gotten it. General functions are generally easier to find in the elisp manual. --- File: elisp, Node: Top, Next: Introduction, Prev: (dir), Up: (dir) Emacs Lisp ********** ... * Text:: Examining and changing text in buffers. ... --- -> (info "(elisp) Text") And the first function of the first entry is what you were looking for. -ap