From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Fineman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Non-character input events Date: 23 Mar 2003 20:59:10 -0500 Organization: The World : www.TheWorld.com : Since 1989 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048471284 15881 80.91.224.249 (24 Mar 2003 02:01:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 02:01:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 24 03:01:23 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18xHH8-000481-00 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 03:01:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xHGb-0001aN-08 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:00:49 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.frii.net!newsfeed.frii.net!news.compaq.com!uunet!sac.uu.net!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp0c055.std.com Original-X-Trace: pcls3.std.com 1048471114 2904 208.192.102.55 (24 Mar 2003 01:58:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 01:58:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111336 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7838 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7838 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > > From: Joe Fineman > > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help > > Date: 20 Mar 2003 18:21:13 -0500 > > > > When a routine I have written is expecting a character & instead > > sees (e.g.) one of the function keys on the keyboard, it complains > > that it has seen a non-character input event. Presumably, > > therefore, Emacs has some way of recognizing such events. Where > > is the documentation for that? "Apropos" yields nothing, and info > > merely admits that they exist. > In general, when you need some information for writing ELisp, you > should first look in the ELisp manual. Type "i input events RET" > when in that manual, and read the chapter you will land in. Which Elisp manual is that? I have downloaded both the version 21.2 manual and the version 20.3 manual from the Gnu Web site, and each contains only one bare mention of input events. -- --- Joe Fineman jcf@TheWorld.com ||: There's no foolishness like old foolishness. :||