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Re: How to distinguish character from noncharacter input events?


From: Joakim Hove
Subject: Re: How to distinguish character from noncharacter input events?
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:25:15 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux)

Joe Fineman <jcf@TheWorld.com> writes:

> Is there a function that distinguishes character from noncharacter
> input events?  It would be nice to be able to write
>
> (let ((next (read-event)))
>   (if (char-p next)
>       (progn ...)
>     (...)))
>

Assuming that by 'character input event' you mean keypresses which
just lead to immediate insertion of the corresponding character, you
might be able to make use of the function (self-insert-command N),
which is run everytime you insert characters in the buffer.

Joakim


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