Re: Missing syntax-table functionality

[Richard Stallman]

    It would be nice to have a standard function which would report the
    syntax of a character within a buffer.  The existing function char-syntax
    is no longer adequate, since it cannot take account of any syntax-table
    text property which may have been set at a buffer position.

The function seems to make sense.  I think that syntax-after is a
better name for it.

Would someone like to write it?

      "Return the syntax of the character at position BUFPOS in BUFFER
    \(default: the current buffer \).
    This may be due to a setting of the syntax-table property on the
    character or be read directly from the current syntax table."

That doc string seems reasonable.