GNU bug report logs - #32562
26; `read-char(-exclusive)' and `characterp'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 20:40:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Merged with 1042, 13599

Found in version 24.2

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #43 received at 32562 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 32562 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32562: 26; `read-char(-exclusive)' and `characterp'
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 16:29:49 +0200

On Sep 10 2018, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> wrote:

> I said "reads a `characterp' character", meaning reads an event
> that satisfies `characterp'. Apparently the functions whose names
> or doc suggests that they read a character do not necessarily
> return something that satisfies `characterp'.

A character with modifiers doesn't satisfy characterp, but it is still a
character (which read-char can return).

Andreas.

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