Re: Non-character input events

[Joe Fineman]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:

> > From: Joe Fineman <jcf@TheWorld.com>
> > 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. 
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---  Joe Fineman    jcf@TheWorld.com

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