* subr.el (event-modifiers): Use internal-event-symbol-parse-modifiers.

* keyboard.c (Fevent_symbol_parse_modifiers): New function.
(syms_of_keyboard): Defsubr it.

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index f4f63e3c4d9..8ee1649afd9 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2007-11-15  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
 
+        * keyboard.c (Fevent_symbol_parse_modifiers): New function.
+        (syms_of_keyboard): Defsubr it.
+
         * data.c (swap_in_global_binding): Fix longstanding bug where
         store_symval_forwarding was not called with the right second argument,
         thus causing objfwd-ing from being dropped.
diff --git a/src/keyboard.c b/src/keyboard.c
index 64504535dd3..41407b5f626 100644
--- a/src/keyboard.c
+++ b/src/keyboard.c
@@ -6545,6 +6545,19 @@ parse_modifiers (symbol)
     }
 }
 
+DEFUN ("internal-event-symbol-parse-modifiers", Fevent_symbol_parse_modifiers,
+       Sevent_symbol_parse_modifiers, 1, 1, 0,
+       doc: /* Parse the event symbol.  For internal use.  */)
+  (symbol)
+{
+  /* Fill the cache if needed.  */
+  parse_modifiers (symbol);
+  /* Ignore the result (which is stored on Qevent_symbol_element_mask)
+     and use the Lispier representation stored on Qevent_symbol_elements
+     instead.  */
+  return Fget (symbol, Qevent_symbol_elements);
+}
+
 /* Apply the modifiers MODIFIERS to the symbol BASE.
    BASE must be unmodified.
 
@@ -11946,6 +11959,7 @@ syms_of_keyboard ()
   staticpro (&help_form_saved_window_configs);
 
   defsubr (&Scurrent_idle_time);
+  defsubr (&Sevent_symbol_parse_modifiers);
   defsubr (&Sevent_convert_list);
   defsubr (&Sread_key_sequence);
   defsubr (&Sread_key_sequence_vector);