Subject: Re: bug#30538: Elisp manual doesn't say how to get a raw syntax descriptor of a character.

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:57:58 +0200

> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:32:33 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>
> 
> The title says it all.  Actually, in the early part of the Elisp manual,
> it does say that `aref' works on char-tables.  And around the syntax part
> of the manual, much later, it says that syntax tables are char-tables.
> 
> This makes it far too much work for somebody to find out what to do.
> Therefore I suggest the following amendment, for Emacs-26:

OK, but:

  . this should have an appropriate index entry, to allow finding this
    stuff easily
  . please take the code snipped in @w{..}, to avoid splitting it
    between lines.

Thanks.