Help with GNU Emacs syntax.el and XEmacs buffer-syntactic-context et al?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Andreas Röhler writes:

 > Also: if GNU syntax.el exists as a section in XEmacs syntax.el, it 
 > should be easier to apply possibly patches from GNU.

Not in my experience.  It's better to maintain our tree organization
than to measure out the rope, tie a knot, and stick our head in the
loop by trying to make it *mechanically* easy to move code from GNU to
XEmacs.  Semantically, the two programs are often subtly different,
especially at low levels.

Specifically, I personally paid a very high price for somebody else's
half-assed synch of the syntax-table property.  (That person proceeded
to just disappear, and was not available to fix his own undocumented
fuckup.)