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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: 30538@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30538: Elisp manual doesn't say how to get a raw syntax descriptor of a character.
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:57:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83woz77akp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180219203233.GB5688@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Mon,  19 Feb 2018 20:32:33 +0000)

> 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.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-20 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-19 20:32 bug#30538: Elisp manual doesn't say how to get a raw syntax descriptor of a character Alan Mackenzie
2018-02-20 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-02-22 18:43   ` Alan Mackenzie

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