From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs 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 Message-ID: <20180222184309.GB6482@ACM> References: <20180219203233.GB5688@ACM> <83woz77akp.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1519325714 6794 195.159.176.226 (22 Feb 2018 18:55:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 18:55:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) Cc: 30538-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 22 19:55:10 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eow1N-0001He-QK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:55:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40519 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eow3Q-0005W8-53 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:57:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56797) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eow3G-0005Ug-HG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:57:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eow3D-0004W3-D7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:57:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:48937) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eow3D-0004Vm-8k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:57:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eow3C-00060X-Qb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:57:02 -0500 Resent-From: Alan Mackenzie Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 18:57:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 30538 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Mail-Followup-To: 30538@debbugs.gnu.org, acm@muc.de, acm@muc.de Original-Received: via spool by 30538-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D30538.151932576723026 (code D ref 30538); Thu, 22 Feb 2018 18:57:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 30538-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Feb 2018 18:56:07 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56834 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eow2J-0005zK-7a for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:56:07 -0500 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:18128 helo=mail.muc.de) by debbugs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eow2H-0005zB-Ib for 30538-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:56:06 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 93375 invoked by uid 3782); 22 Feb 2018 18:56:04 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p548C7841.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.140.120.65]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:56:03 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 6511 invoked by uid 1000); 22 Feb 2018 18:43:09 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83woz77akp.fsf@gnu.org> X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:143604 Archived-At: 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 > > 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).