Re: help using/understanding syntax tables

[Peter <peter.milliken@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, February 5, 2017 at 7:18:35 PM UTC+11, Helmut Eller wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 04 2017, Peter wrote:
> 
> > I was not sure of the use of "(syntax-table)" in the 'map-char-table
> > statement - I tried changing it to be "my-syntax-table" but it made no
> > difference to the results.
> 
> (syntax-table) returns the current syntax-table, i.e. the syntax-table
> of the current buffer.  In your example, map-char-table iterates over
> the current syntax-table but then modify-syntax-entry modifies
> my-syntax-table.  So it looks OK.  Though, you could change the entire
> range without iteration like so:
> 
>   (modify-syntax-entry (cons 0 (max-char)) "w" my-syntax-table)
> 
> I don't know why < and > don't work as they should.
> 
> Helmut

Thanks Helmut