From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12270: 24.1.50; (elisp) Syntax Descriptors: "second character, if present" Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:45:17 -0700 Message-ID: <326318AAC3364E9BA18F16D23A753C36@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1345823212 15882 80.91.229.3 (24 Aug 2012 15:46:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:46:52 +0000 (UTC) To: 12270@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 24 17:46:52 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T4w5t-0008An-IM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:46:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40381 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T4w5r-00043l-Sf for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:45:21 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.173.105) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:45:21 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Thread-Index: Ac2CD3V+cRvbkfzVRhenNj+a8vTdyg== X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:63457 Archived-At: This text does not seem correct to me. At least it seems unclear. "The first character in a syntax descriptor must be a syntax class designator character. The second character, if present, specifies a matching character (e.g. in Lisp, the matching character for `(' is `)'); a space specifies that there is no matching character." How can the second char be absent if the third char is present? It is wrong to speak of a char being "present" here, AFAICT. What should be said instead of "present" is non-space: "The second character, if not a space, specifies..." In GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-08-13 on MARVIN Bzr revision: 109584 monnier@iro.umontreal.ca-20120813141247-76irjqslrfncn30u Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 Configured using: `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libiconv-1.13.1-1-dev/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libxml2-2.7.8/include/libxml2'