From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: is there a human readable way to display syntax table? Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:18:25 -0700 Message-ID: <002701c92c86$28ea66e0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <483eaf97-fc85-423c-8f05-ecd42a0c1507@t18g2000prt.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223828333 11542 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2008 16:18:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:18:53 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Xah'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 12 18:19:50 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kp3fZ-00014O-1e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:19:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37476 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kp3eU-0002W0-Nu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:18:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kp3eF-0002Vv-5T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:18:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kp3eC-0002Vf-Ql for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:18:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36836 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kp3eC-0002Vc-JK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:18:24 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:33294) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kp3eC-0003VS-9Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:18:24 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (rgmgw2.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.111]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m9CGIIVt011278; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:18:19 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt703.oracle.com (acsmt703.oracle.com [141.146.40.81]) by rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id m9CGIHRA013830; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:18:17 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.23.165.218) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:18:17 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 thread-index: AcksgN16UUD6zMZ9TAe57bqUsWv8OwABQ/Zg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 In-reply-to: <483eaf97-fc85-423c-8f05-ecd42a0c1507@t18g2000prt.googlegroups.com> X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:58708 Archived-At: > 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.