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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: How to create random characters?
Date: 15 Dec 2003 10:46:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1xr65uyn.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ypteqwll5.fsf@skjellgran.ii.uib.no> (message from Joakim Hove on Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:07:18 +0100)

> From: Joakim Hove <hove@bccs.no>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:07:18 +0100
> 
> but what does the "?" in the expression below do?

?x is the Lisp notation for the character x.

> (I can guess - but without any previous experience from lisp I am a
>  bit lost with the special character like "@", "#", "`" and "?" which
>  some elisp code is filled with. Any tips of where to find these
>  documented would be appreciated.)

They are documented in the ELisp manual.  See the node "Lisp Data
Types" there, and its sub-nodes.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-15  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-14  9:59 How to create random characters? Brad Collins
2003-12-14 11:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.53.1071403922.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-15  8:07   ` Joakim Hove
2003-12-15  8:46     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2003-12-18  9:22 ` Brad Collins
     [not found] ` <mailman.242.1071742690.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-18 10:32   ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-12-18 17:30     ` Brad Collins
     [not found]     ` <mailman.280.1071771962.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-18 18:30       ` Harald Maier
2003-12-18 18:31       ` Kai Grossjohann

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