From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: read-event question Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:05:48 -0600 Message-ID: References: <878xq8wfuv.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145038024 12508 80.91.229.2 (14 Apr 2006 18:07:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:07:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 14 20:07:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUShC-0001s4-Mc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:07:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUShC-0007ER-8V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:07:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FUSgz-0007E0-0A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:06:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FUSgx-0007Da-8L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:06:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUSgx-0007DT-3L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:06:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FUSgy-0006rX-I7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:06:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FUSgq-0001oT-Pq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:06:40 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:06:40 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:06:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52878 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Stefan Monnier writes: > > >>?\M-n > > > Wow. > > Anyway, perhaps the documentation to `read-event' should mention this? > Surely I can't be the only one who's wondered about this... It seems obvious to me at least: the M-n keyboard event is a character, and characters are represented as integers. Have you read the Keyboard Events node of the Emacs Lisp manual? -- Kevin Rodgers