From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 30538-done@debbugs.gnu.org
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 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180222184309.GB6482@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83woz77akp.fsf@gnu.org>
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).
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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
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