Re: last-input-event and X/non-X

[Tim X]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
>> ((or (eq last-input-event 127) 
>>      (eq last-input-event 'backspace)) 
>>  (do-something)) 
>>
>> but that seems a bit clunky to me. Also, I'm not sure how well this
>> will work with other character sets or encodings or on other
>> platforms, like Windows. 
>
> You might try looking up the event in `function-key-map', which is how
> platform-specific things like <backspace> normally get translated.
>
> e.g. 
>
>     (when (equal (lookup-key function-key-map (vector last-input-event))
>                  [127])
>        (do something))
>        

thanks Miles - that is a good idea. I was actually just delving into
the key maps as I figured there had to be something like that. You
have saved me a bit of time by narrowing the search space a bit.
Thanks.

Tim


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