GNU bug report logs - #7631
24.0.50; inconsistency in event-convert-list and event-basic-type

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Don March <don <at> ohspite.net>

Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 06:17:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 24.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 7631 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Don March <don <at> ohspite.net>
Cc: 7631 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7631: 24.0.50;
	inconsistency in event-convert-list and event-basic-type
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:01:14 -0500

> (event-convert-list '(t)) ; => 116

> There's good reason to want this to eval to t (i.e. the symbol, not
> the char).

Could you explain what is this good reason?
In Emacs, events corresponding to keys that are associated with
a characters are represented by an Elisp char, whereas other events are
represented by symbols.

AFAIK event-convert-list is mostly used to convert XEmacs style

  (define-key map [(control x)] 'foo)
to
  (define-key map ?\C-x 'foo)

so this single-char symbol conversion to a character is useful.
Maybe you can explain to us the problem it causes you.


        Stefan
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