[help-gnu-emacs] What are the numbers on car of keymaps

[Daniel Hilst]

I, yet, do not understand keymaps... What are the number on car of
keymaps and how do they map to keys

Here is a sample http://pastebin.com/eAAytqx9

Cheers

[Mark Simpson]

Daniel Hilst <danie...@gmail.com> writes:

> I, yet, do not understand keymaps... What are the number on car of
> keymaps and how do they map to keys

Those appear to be the ASCII value of the key being mapped.

0x27 is ESC, 0x114 is 'r'

For reference: http://www.asciitable.com/ or 'man ascii' (if available).

Ciao
Mark

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Daniel Hilst <danie...@gmail.com> writes:

> I, yet, do not understand keymaps... What are the number on car of
> keymaps and how do they map to keys
>

> Here is a sample http://pastebin.com/eAAytqx9

In emacs lisp, characters are integers.

So a key that correspond to a character will be represented by this
character (ie. the code of this character).

But other keys, or key chords will be represented by bigger integers,
that are not the code of any character. You can find them with kbd or
edmacro-parse-keys.

(kbd "C-M-a") --> [134217729]


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