bug#7631: 24.0.50; inconsistency in event-convert-list and event-basic-type

[Stefan Monnier]

> (event-convert-list '(t)) ; => 116

> There's good reason to want this to eval to t (i.e. the symbol, not
> the char).

Could you explain what is this good reason?
In Emacs, events corresponding to keys that are associated with
a characters are represented by an Elisp char, whereas other events are
represented by symbols.

AFAIK event-convert-list is mostly used to convert XEmacs style

  (define-key map [(control x)] 'foo)
to
  (define-key map ?\C-x 'foo)

so this single-char symbol conversion to a character is useful.
Maybe you can explain to us the problem it causes you.


        Stefan