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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org
Subject: Re: numeri
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:22:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uk5amfnw9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jeljv24iyc.fsf@sykes.suse.de>

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> Cc: handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:04:27 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Observe:
> >
> >     M-: (get-char-code-property ?4 'numeric-value) RET
> >       => \4
> >
> > What does the backslash signify in this case?
> 
> That it's a symbol, not a number.

Right, but why backslash?  Why not something like `digit-four'?




  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-29 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-29 14:36 numeri Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-29 16:04 ` numeri Andreas Schwab
2008-11-29 17:22   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-11-29 17:39     ` numeri Andreas Schwab
2008-11-29 18:05       ` numeri Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-29 18:38         ` numeri Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-29 19:01           ` numeri David De La Harpe Golden
2008-11-29 21:26             ` numeri Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-29 22:50           ` numeri Stefan Monnier
2008-12-01 12:09             ` numeri Kenichi Handa

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