Re: string-to-syntax for XEmacs 21.4?
Ar an séú lá déag de mí Eanair, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull:
Marcus Harnisch writes:
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>
> > I have no idea what a "syntax cell" is, but based on your examples
it
> > would seem
>
> I think this described in the next sentence of the FSF docstring:
>
> "[Return] Value is the equivalent cons cell (CODE . MATCHING-CHAR)
> that can be used as value of a `syntax-table' text property."
Well, yes, but that doesn't even match the examples Skip gives (all of
which have cdr of nil, not a character). I prefer to assume I know
nothing where reality and docstrings conflict like that. ;-)
The #'set-extent-property docstring doesn’t mention a semantics for the cdr
of the syntax-table property. That means we haven’t implemented GNU’s
semantics for the MATCHING-CHAR part, but it doesn’t necessarily mean we
should.
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