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list motion functions (@pxref{List Motion}) as well as the functions in
this chapter.
@end ifinfo

  A syntax table is a vector of 256 elements; it contains one entry for
each of the 256 @sc{ASCII} characters of an 8-bit byte.  Each element is
an integer that encodes the syntax of the character in question.

  Syntax tables are used only for moving across text, not for the Emacs
Lisp reader.  Emacs Lisp uses built-in syntactic rules when reading Lisp
expressions, and these rules cannot be changed.

exceed that many.

@node Standard Syntax Tables
@section Some Standard Syntax Tables

  Each of the major modes in Emacs has its own syntax table.  Here are
several of them: 

@defun standard-syntax-table
This function returns the standard syntax table, which is the syntax
table used in Fundamental mode.
@end defun

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list motion functions (@pxref{List Motion}) as well as the functions in
this chapter.
@end ifinfo

  A syntax table is a vector of 256 elements; it contains one entry for
each of the 256 possible characters in an 8-bit byte.  Each element is
an integer that encodes the syntax of the character in question.

  Syntax tables are used only for moving across text, not for the Emacs
Lisp reader.  Emacs Lisp uses built-in syntactic rules when reading Lisp
expressions, and these rules cannot be changed.

exceed that many.

@node Standard Syntax Tables
@section Some Standard Syntax Tables

  Most of the major modes in Emacs have their own syntax tables.  Here
are several of them:

@defun standard-syntax-table
This function returns the standard syntax table, which is the syntax
table used in Fundamental mode.
@end defun