From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Xah'" <xahlee@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: is there a human readable way to display syntax table?
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:18:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002701c92c86$28ea66e0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <483eaf97-fc85-423c-8f05-ecd42a0c1507@t18g2000prt.googlegroups.com>
> when creating a syntax table while writing a new mode, i need to pick
> a syntax table to inherit. Is there a way to display the syntax table
> so that its human readible? I'm mostly interested in seeing which of
> the ascii chars's classes, in the standard-syntax-table, text-mode-
> syntaxt-table, or c-mode-syntax-table.
>
> If i eval (standard-syntax-table) or see the values of text-mode-
> syntaxt-table, it returns a internal format of over 10 thousand
> cryptic elements.
`C-h s', which is `describe-syntax', shows the current syntax table in
human-readable form.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-12 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-12 14:52 is there a human readable way to display syntax table? Xah
2008-10-12 16:13 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-10-12 16:18 ` Drew Adams [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.885.1223828028.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-16 21:21 ` Xah
2008-10-17 13:50 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.1336.1224251466.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-17 18:36 ` Xah
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