Re: [ELISP] How do you turn an array of chars into a string?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> The elisp manual has this example, using "kbd" to convert a (relatively)
> readable string into the "internal Emacs key representation":

>      (global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-\\") 'next-line)
>      (global-set-key [?\C-x ?\C-\\] 'next-line)

> What's the inverse of kbd?

key-description

> What if you want to convert an array-of-chars into a string?

A string *is* an array of chars.  If you want to convert a vector
(i.e. one of those arrays that contains arbitrary Lisp values) to
a string, you can use `concat': (concat (vector ?a ?b ?c)) => "abc".


        Stefan