Re: What is the value of ^@ as character in elisp

[Kevin Rodgers]

Slavomir Kaslev wrote:
> I am new to emacs lisp and I am writing several functions to make
> emacs communicate with Autodesk Maya.
>
> I can't figure a way to get the value of ^@ as character in elisp. For
> the moment I just copied the character in my .el source:
>
> (defcustom etom-prompt-regexp "^^@$"
>   "Regexp which matches the Maya's prompt."
>   :type 'regexp
>   :group 'etom)
>
> where ^@ is the character, not the string "^@".

[gnu.emacs.sources is for posting code; questions such as this should be
sent to gnu.emacs.help, which is where I'm cross-posting and directing
follow-ups.]

"^\000"

See the Nonprinting Characters node of the Emacs Lisp manual, follow the
link to the Character Type node, then its General Escape Syntax subnode.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA