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Re: Missing syntax-table functionality
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Missing syntax-table functionality |
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Wed, 09 Jan 2002 13:30:42 -0500 |
> 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.
Indeed. It's such a good name that it's already written (in elisp)
in syntax.el.
Stefan