From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: is there a human readable way to display syntax table? Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:52:27 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <483eaf97-fc85-423c-8f05-ecd42a0c1507@t18g2000prt.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223826036 4848 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2008 15:40:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:40:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 12 17:41:33 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 1Kp34U-0004qQ-Ia for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:41:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41837 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kp33Q-0001av-7l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:40:24 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!t18g2000prt.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.185.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1223823147 25787 127.0.0.1 (12 Oct 2008 14:52:27 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:52:27 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t18g2000prt.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.185.159; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163363 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:58706 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. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84