+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.
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.
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>
(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.
(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
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.
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>
* 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.
(Managing Overlays): Document remove-overlays.
(Standard Faces): Document escape-glyph face.
- * minibuf.texi (Reading File Names): Document
- read-file-name-function.
+ * minibuf.texi (Reading File Names): Document read-file-name-function.
- * modes.texi (Other Font Lock Variables): Document
- font-lock-lines-before.
+ * modes.texi (Other Font Lock Variables):
+ Document font-lock-lines-before.
* positions.texi (Skipping Characters): skip-chars-forward allows
character classes.
(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.
* 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.
@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}
@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
@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.
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.
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