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Re: Printing elisp char literals
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
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Re: Printing elisp char literals |
Date: |
Tue, 27 May 2003 19:39:49 +0900 |
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Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) XEmacs/21.5 (carrot, linux) |
>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
David> "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden>
David> writes:
>> Let's say I have an integer. How can I check whether it's a
>> char ?
Doesn't the optional argument to char-valid-p do the right thing?
And pretty clearly `event-modifiers' extracts the modifiers into a
Lispy format.
David> IIRC, XEmacs has sort of an opaque character representation
David> type, so it might be worth borrowing an idea or two from
David> them in this regard before reinventing the wheel. Stephen,
David> any idea of whether something might apply here?
Besides the fact that it looks like these APIs already exist, even for
more complex cases I don't think so. While I believe the XEmacs model
is a good one, it took several years to shake out many bugs due to
errors in porting code from the old "characters are a subset of
integers" model.
This would best be done in combination with a large revision of basic
Mule functionality, such as in emacs-unicode, if it's considered
desirable.
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