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| author | Craig Jennings <c@cjennings.net> | 2024-04-07 13:41:34 -0500 |
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diff --git a/devdocs/elisp/character-type.html b/devdocs/elisp/character-type.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..67cfb989 --- /dev/null +++ b/devdocs/elisp/character-type.html @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ + <h4 class="subsection">Character Type</h4> <p>A <em>character</em> in Emacs Lisp is nothing more than an integer. In other words, characters are represented by their character codes. For example, the character <kbd>A</kbd> is represented as the integer 65. </p> <p>Individual characters are used occasionally in programs, but it is more common to work with <em>strings</em>, which are sequences composed of characters. See <a href="string-type">String Type</a>. </p> <p>Characters in strings and buffers are currently limited to the range of 0 to 4194303—twenty two bits (see <a href="character-codes">Character Codes</a>). Codes 0 through 127 are <acronym>ASCII</acronym> codes; the rest are non-<acronym>ASCII</acronym> (see <a href="non_002dascii-characters">Non-ASCII Characters</a>). Characters that represent keyboard input have a much wider range, to encode modifier keys such as Control, Meta and Shift. </p> <p>There are special functions for producing a human-readable textual description of a character for the sake of messages. See <a href="describing-characters">Describing Characters</a>. </p> <table class="menu" border="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> +<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="basic-char-syntax" accesskey="1">Basic Char Syntax</a> +</td> +<td> </td> +<td align="left" valign="top">Syntax for regular characters. </td> +</tr> <tr> +<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="general-escape-syntax" accesskey="2">General Escape Syntax</a> +</td> +<td> </td> +<td align="left" valign="top">How to specify characters by their codes. </td> +</tr> <tr> +<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="ctl_002dchar-syntax" accesskey="3">Ctl-Char Syntax</a> +</td> +<td> </td> +<td align="left" valign="top">Syntax for control characters. </td> +</tr> <tr> +<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="meta_002dchar-syntax" accesskey="4">Meta-Char Syntax</a> +</td> +<td> </td> +<td align="left" valign="top">Syntax for meta-characters. </td> +</tr> <tr> +<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="other-char-bits" accesskey="5">Other Char Bits</a> +</td> +<td> </td> +<td align="left" valign="top">Syntax for hyper-, super-, and alt-characters. </td> +</tr> </table><div class="_attribution"> + <p class="_attribution-p"> + Copyright © 1990-1996, 1998-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <br>Licensed under the GNU GPL license.<br> + <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Character-Type.html" class="_attribution-link">https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Character-Type.html</a> + </p> +</div> |