Re: Get char at point

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ TheFlyingDutchman <zzbbaadd@aol.com>:

> Is there a function to get the character at point?  I see get-byte,
> which would work for an ASCII coded file, but I believe Emacs has some
> support for multi-byte character sets.

If you type C-h f char TAB, you will see a bunch of functions whose
names begin with "char". Then you might wildly guess that the first hit,
char-after, is what you are looking for, and if you actually select
that, the wild guess is confirmed.

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* Harald Hanche-Olsen     <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
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