GNU bug report logs - #32149
27.0.50; [elisp manual] Incorrect quoting in "Syntax Table Functions"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>

Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:21:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 32149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>
Cc: 32149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32149: 27.0.50;
 [elisp manual] Incorrect quoting in "Syntax Table Functions"
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 22:34:26 +0300

> From: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>
> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 22:20:00 +0300
> 
>      The following examples apply to C mode.  (We use ‘string’ to make
>      it easier to see the character returned by ‘char-syntax’.)
> 
>           ;; Space characters have whitespace syntax class.
>           (string (char-syntax ?\s))
>                ⇒ " "
> [..]
> 
> I guess that ‘string’ should be "string".

Why do you think so?  How is the use of "string" in the example
different from "char-syntax", about which you didn't complain?
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