Missing syntax-table functionality

[Alan Mackenzie]

Status, Emacs 21.1:

It would be nice to have a standard function which would report the
syntax of a character within a buffer.  The existing function char-syntax
is no longer adequate, since it cannot take account of any syntax-table
text property which may have been set at a buffer position.

Such a function would be trivial to write, and has probably already been
done so several times by different people.  Unless anybody has any better
ideas, I would suggest the following definition:

(defun bufpos-syntax (bufpos &optional buffer)
  "Return the syntax of the character at position BUFPOS in BUFFER
\(default: the current buffer \).
This may be due to a setting of the syntax-table property on the
character or be read directly from the current syntax table."
....
)

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter
(like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").