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

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 32562 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#32562: 26; `read-char(-exclusive)' and `characterp'
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 07:57:13 -0700 (PDT)

> > I was asking for a function that insists on getting an event that
> > satisfies `characterp', i.e., that keeps reading events until it does.
> 
> Not sure we have such a beast, but wouldn't calling read-char in a
> loop until you get something that passes the 'characterp' test do?

I think that's what I'm doing now, but I don't recall now just
which code I was using this for. ;-)

If the doc has been clarified that's a help. Thx.
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