From: AmosBurke <resmith55@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Get char at point
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:37:24 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c0b36391-654a-4ad2-bca8-a6ec6b3c3e1c@n19g2000prf.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: pcok4oulc7m.fsf@math.ntnu.no
On Jul 17, 1:55 am, Harald Hanche-Olsen <han...@math.ntnu.no> wrote:
> + TheFlyingDutchman <zzbba...@aol.com>:
>
> > Is there a function to get the character at point? I see get-byte,
> > which would work for an ASCII coded file, but I believe Emacs has some
> > support for multi-byte character sets.
>
> If you type C-h f char TAB, you will see a bunch of functions whose
> names begin with "char". Then you might wildly guess that the first hit,
> char-after, is what you are looking for, and if you actually select
> that, the wild guess is confirmed.
>
> --
> * Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
> - It is undesirable to believe a proposition
> when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
> -- Bertrand Russell
Thanks! I believe I did look at the char* functions. If it had been
named char-at I would have gotten it. It should be noted that the help
for "char-after" says
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(char-after &optional POS)
Return character in current buffer at position POS.
POS is an integer or a marker and defaults to point.
If POS is out of range, the value is nil.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
The concept of "point" being between characters, was unfortunately
followed in naming the function, and then luckily ignored in the help
for the function.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-17 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-17 4:32 Get char at point TheFlyingDutchman
2010-07-17 8:55 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2010-07-17 9:37 ` AmosBurke [this message]
2010-07-17 9:45 ` TheFlyingDutchman
2010-07-17 9:57 ` Andreas Politz
2010-07-17 22:48 ` TheFlyingDutchman
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