From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Get char at point Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:55:09 +0200 Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291846620 21974 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 22:17:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 22:17:00 +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 23:16:56 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 1PQSJk-0002IK-2M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:16:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58974 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQSJj-0008HF-7e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:16:55 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: euler.math.ntnu.no Original-X-Trace: orkan.itea.ntnu.no 1279356911 12069 129.241.15.252 (17 Jul 2010 08:55:11 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ntnu.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 08:55:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FvFcPcXQ0ZfZbBLZw2YGbrSoUd0= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179803 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:76116 Archived-At: + TheFlyingDutchman : > 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 - It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. -- Bertrand Russell