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changeset 63291:e7539bdc68d1
(Parsing Expressions): Document syntax-ppss.
| author | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> |
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| date | Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:20:25 +0000 |
| parents | 01f269fcca4c |
| children | 5ca9652ec98b |
| files | lispref/ChangeLog lispref/syntax.texi |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/ChangeLog Fri Jun 10 22:02:23 2005 +0000 +++ b/lispref/ChangeLog Fri Jun 10 22:20:25 2005 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2005-06-10 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> + + * syntax.texi (Parsing Expressions): Document syntax-ppss. + 2005-06-10 Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@auburn.edu> * debugging.texi (Error Debugging): Minor rewording. @@ -6,12 +10,11 @@ 2005-06-10 Lute Kamstra <lute@gnu.org> - * elisp.texi: Use EMACSVER to refer to the current version of - Emacs. + * elisp.texi: Use EMACSVER to refer to the current version of Emacs. (Top): Give it a title. Correct version number. Give the detailed node listing a more prominent header. - * intro.texi: Don't set VERSION here a second time. Mention - Emacs' version too. + * intro.texi: Don't set VERSION here a second time. + Mention Emacs's version too. * anti.texi (Antinews): Use EMACSVER to refer to the current version of Emacs. @@ -95,8 +98,8 @@ 2005-05-21 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> - * files.texi (Locating Files): New subsection. Describe - locate-file and executable-find. + * files.texi (Locating Files): New subsection. + Describe locate-file and executable-find. 2005-05-21 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> @@ -111,8 +114,8 @@ (Major Mode Conventions): Refer to `Auto Major Mode' in more appropriate place. (Derived Modes): Small clarifications. - (Minor Mode Conventions, Keymaps and Minor Modes): Replace - references to nodes with references to anchors. + (Minor Mode Conventions, Keymaps and Minor Modes): + Replace references to nodes with references to anchors. (Mode Line Data): Warn that `(:eval FORM)' should not load any files. Clarify description of lists whose first element is an integer. (Mode Line Variables): Add anchor. @@ -264,10 +267,10 @@ (Font Lock Basics): Say that font-lock-defaults is buffer-local when set and that some parts are optional. Add cross references. (Search-based Fontification): Say how to specify font-lock-keywords. - Add cross references. Add font-lock-multiline to index. Move - font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search here from node "Other Font + Add cross references. Add font-lock-multiline to index. + Move font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search here from node "Other Font Lock Variables". Document font-lock-add-keywords and - font-lock-remove-keywords + font-lock-remove-keywords. (Other Font Lock Variables): Move font-lock-keywords-only, font-lock-syntax-table, font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function, and font-lock-syntactic-face-function to node "Syntactic Font @@ -282,8 +285,8 @@ and font-lock-syntactic-face-function here from node "Other Font Lock Variables". Move font-lock-syntactic-keywords to "Setting Syntax Properties". Add cross references. - (Setting Syntax Properties): New node. Move - font-lock-syntactic-keywords here from "Syntactic Font Lock". + (Setting Syntax Properties): New node. + Move font-lock-syntactic-keywords here from "Syntactic Font Lock". * syntax.texi (Syntax Properties): Add cross reference. * hooks.texi (Standard Hooks): Add Font-Lock hooks. @@ -342,7 +345,7 @@ 2005-04-19 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> - * streams.texi (Output Functions): Fix xref. + * streams.texi (Output Functions): Fix xref. * strings.texi (String Conversion): Fix xref. 2005-04-19 Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> @@ -436,8 +439,8 @@ * markers.texi (The Mark): Document temporary Transient Mark mode. - * minibuf.texi (Reading File Names): Document - read-file-name-completion-ignore-case. + * minibuf.texi (Reading File Names): + Document read-file-name-completion-ignore-case. * positions.texi (Screen Lines): Document nil for width argument to compute-motion. @@ -457,11 +460,10 @@ (Managing Overlays): Document remove-overlays. (Standard Faces): Document escape-glyph face. - * minibuf.texi (Reading File Names): Document - read-file-name-function. - - * modes.texi (Other Font Lock Variables): Document - font-lock-lines-before. + * minibuf.texi (Reading File Names): Document read-file-name-function. + + * modes.texi (Other Font Lock Variables): + Document font-lock-lines-before. * positions.texi (Skipping Characters): skip-chars-forward allows character classes. @@ -515,18 +517,18 @@ (Progress): Clarify. (Invisible Text): Explain that main loop moves point out. (Selective Display): Say "hidden", not "invisible". - (Managing Overlays): Moved up. Describe relation to Undo here. + (Managing Overlays): Move up. Describe relation to Undo here. (Overlay Properties): Clarify intro. (Finding Overlays): Explain return values when nothing found. (Width): truncate-string-to-width has added arg. (Displaying Faces): Clarify and update mode line face handling. (Face Functions): Minor cleanup. - (Conditional Display): Merged into Other Display Specs. + (Conditional Display): Merge into Other Display Specs. (Pixel Specification, Other Display Specs): Minor cleanups. (Images, Image Descriptors): Minor cleanups. (GIF Images): Patents have expired. (Showing Images): Explain default text for insert-image. - (Manipulating Button Types): Merged into Manipulating Buttons. + (Manipulating Button Types): Merge into Manipulating Buttons. (Making Buttons): Explain return values. (Button Buffer Commands): Add xref. (Inverse Video): Update mode-line-inverse-video. @@ -886,8 +888,8 @@ * commands.texi (Misc Events): Describe the help-echo event. * text.texi (Special Properties) <help-echo>: Use `pos' - consistently in description of the help-echo property. Use - @code{nil} instead of @var{nil}. + consistently in description of the help-echo property. + Use @code{nil} instead of @var{nil}. * display.texi (Overlay Properties): Fix the index entry for help-echo overlay property.
--- a/lispref/syntax.texi Fri Jun 10 22:02:23 2005 +0000 +++ b/lispref/syntax.texi Fri Jun 10 22:20:25 2005 +0000 @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ @deffn {Syntax class} @w{inherit} This syntax class does not specify a particular syntax. It says to look in the standard syntax table to find the syntax of this character. The -designator for this syntax code is @samp{@@}. +designator for this syntax class is @samp{@@}. @end deffn @deffn {Syntax class} @w{generic comment delimiter} @@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ @samp{p} identifies an additional ``prefix character'' for Lisp syntax. These characters are treated as whitespace when they appear between expressions. When they appear within an expression, they are handled -according to their usual syntax codes. +according to their usual syntax classes. The function @code{backward-prefix-chars} moves back over these characters, as well as over characters whose primary syntax class is @@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ @defun skip-syntax-forward syntaxes &optional limit This function moves point forward across characters having syntax -classes mentioned in @var{syntaxes} (a string of syntax code +classes mentioned in @var{syntaxes} (a string of syntax class characters). It stops when it encounters the end of the buffer, or position @var{limit} (if specified), or a character it is not supposed to skip. @@ -730,6 +730,16 @@ that have nested parentheses. @end defun +@defun syntax-ppss &optional pos +This function returns the state that the parser would have at position +@var{pos}, if it were started with a default start state at the +beginning of the buffer. Thus, it is equivalent to +@code(parse-partial-sexp (point-min) @var{pos}), except that +@code{syntax-ppss} uses a cache to speed up the computation. Also, +the 2nd value (previous complete subexpression) and 6th value (minimum +parenthesis depth) of the returned state are not meaningful. +@end defun + @defun scan-lists from count depth This function scans forward @var{count} balanced parenthetical groupings from position @var{from}. It returns the position where the scan stops.