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Elisp manual doesn't say how to get a raw syntax descriptor of a character.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: 30538 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30538: Elisp manual doesn't say how to get a raw syntax descriptor of a character.
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:57:58 +0200

> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:32:33 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
> 
> 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.

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