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bug#30538: Elisp manual doesn't say how to get a raw syntax descriptor o
From: |
Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
bug#30538: Elisp manual doesn't say how to get a raw syntax descriptor of a character. |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 18:43:09 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) |
Hello, Eli.
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 20:57:58 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:32:33 +0000
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> > The title says it all. Actually, in the early part of the Elisp manual,
> > it does say that `aref' works on char-tables. And around the syntax part
> > of the manual, much later, it says that syntax tables are char-tables.
> > This makes it far too much work for somebody to find out what to do.
> > Therefore I suggest the following amendment, for Emacs-26:
> OK, but:
> . this should have an appropriate index entry, to allow finding this
> stuff easily
> . please take the code snipped in @w{..}, to avoid splitting it
> between lines.
I've committed the patch (with the amendments you've requested) and am
closing the bug.
> Thanks.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).