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| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 2006-05-21 23:34:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 2006-05-21 23:34:59 +0000 |
| commit | c18eec5c991ca97cf48a33f1a5a07e1994305776 (patch) | |
| tree | b70eb7fde5d15735af37e730d58207df3e6badf0 /lispref | |
| parent | 21225d8f7eae2d0b2fd59099695afdaef1ceb866 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-c18eec5c991ca97cf48a33f1a5a07e1994305776.tar.gz | |
(Parsing Expressions): Update info on which STATE elements are ignored.
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| -rw-r--r-- | lispref/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lispref/syntax.texi | 15 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lispref/ChangeLog b/lispref/ChangeLog index 5399bdf91c7..2acd2395561 100644 --- a/lispref/ChangeLog +++ b/lispref/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-05-21 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> + + * syntax.texi (Parsing Expressions): Update info on which STATE + elements are ignored. + 2006-05-19 Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@auburn.edu> * hooks.texi (Standard Hooks): Correct typo. diff --git a/lispref/syntax.texi b/lispref/syntax.texi index 1575ebeb850..9a763b7357a 100644 --- a/lispref/syntax.texi +++ b/lispref/syntax.texi @@ -662,10 +662,9 @@ string, or the end of a comment or a string, whichever comes first. @cindex parse state The fifth argument @var{state} is a ten-element list of the same form -as the value of this function, described below. (It is OK to omit the -last two elements of this list.) The return value of one call may be -used to initialize the state of the parse on another call to -@code{parse-partial-sexp}. +as the value of this function, described below. The return value of +one call may be used to initialize the state of the parse on another +call to @code{parse-partial-sexp}. The result is a list of ten elements describing the final state of the parse: @@ -721,11 +720,13 @@ this element is @code{nil}. Internal data for continuing the parsing. The meaning of this data is subject to change; it is used if you pass this list as the @var{state} argument to another call. - @end enumerate -Elements 0, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 are significant in the argument -@var{state}. +Elements 1, 2, and 6 are ignored in the argument @var{state}. Element +8 is used only to set the corresponding element of the return value, +in certain simple cases. Element 9 is used only to set element 1 of +the return value, in trivial cases where parsing starts and stops +within the same pair of parentheses. @cindex indenting with parentheses This function is most often used to compute indentation for languages |