Re: Non-character input events

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Joe Fineman <jcf@TheWorld.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: 20 Mar 2003 18:21:13 -0500
> 
> When a routine I have written is expecting a character & instead sees
> (e.g.) one of the function keys on the keyboard, it complains that it
> has seen a non-character input event.  Presumably, therefore, Emacs
> has some way of recognizing such events.  Where is the documentation
> for that?  "Apropos" yields nothing, and info merely admits that they
> exist.

In general, when you need some information for writing ELisp, you
should first look in the ELisp manual.  Type "i input events RET" when
in that manual, and read the chapter you will land in.