From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:56:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (Syntactic Font Lock): Give default for font-lock-syntax-table.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-22.0.90~1405
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=90b80b6944967a203d7ecc74a81f447328b321bd;p=emacs.git

(Syntactic Font Lock): Give default for font-lock-syntax-table.
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diff --git a/lispref/modes.texi b/lispref/modes.texi
index c98039d7ae0..8e64ece7066 100644
--- a/lispref/modes.texi
+++ b/lispref/modes.texi
@@ -2918,7 +2918,8 @@ way for a mode to set this variable to @code{t} is with
 @defvar font-lock-syntax-table
 This variable holds the syntax table to use for fontification of
 comments and strings.  Specify it using @var{syntax-alist} in
-@code{font-lock-defaults}.
+@code{font-lock-defaults}.  If this is @code{nil}, fontification uses
+the buffer's syntax table.
 @end defvar
 
 @defvar font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function