Re: master 3b41141708: Expose the name of an event's input device to Lisp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2022 21:37:56 +0800
> 
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
> > Not necessarily, it could be something like:
> >
> >     (defun event-device (e)
> >       (when (consp e)
> >         (alist-get 'device (nthcdr 3 e))))
> >
> > But I agree that the current representation of events is problematic.
> > We should make it more regular and self-descriptive, either based on an
> > alist as above or have every event come with some kind of "class" which
> > then describes the name&position of every accompanying data.
> 
> Unfortunately, our current representation is basically set in stone.
> There is too much Lisp out there that relies on the current form of Lisp
> events, and simply finding all that code will be a serious chore.

We could keep the form, but add additional members to the list, no?