(Parsing Expressions): Clean up forward-comment

[gnu-emacs] / lispref / syntax.texi

diff --git a/lispref/syntax.texi b/lispref/syntax.texi
index 0d7c1cd03643f19b0438aa89d18d1ca6aa22bf0f..7bf67d1f25767b234e0c277c7dd1cef450339920 100644 (file)
--- a/lispref/syntax.texi
+++ b/lispref/syntax.texi
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 @c -*-texinfo-*-
 @c This is part of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
 @c Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999
-@c   Free Software Foundation, Inc. 
+@c   Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 @c See the file elisp.texi for copying conditions.
 @setfilename ../info/syntax
 @node Syntax Tables, Abbrevs, Searching and Matching, Top
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ signaled if @var{char} is not a character.
 @exdent @r{Examples:}
 
 ;; @r{Put the space character in class whitespace.}
-(modify-syntax-entry ?\  " ")
+(modify-syntax-entry ?\s " ")
      @result{} nil
 @end group
 
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ character, @samp{)}.
 
 @example
 @group
-(string (char-syntax ?\ ))
+(string (char-syntax ?\s))
      @result{} " "
 @end group
 
@@ -664,36 +664,36 @@ The result is a list of nine elements describing the final state of
 the parse:
 
 @enumerate 0
-@item 
+@item
 The depth in parentheses, counting from 0.
 
-@item 
+@item
 @cindex innermost containing parentheses
 The character position of the start of the innermost parenthetical
 grouping containing the stopping point; @code{nil} if none.
 
-@item 
+@item
 @cindex previous complete subexpression
 The character position of the start of the last complete subexpression
 terminated; @code{nil} if none.
 
-@item 
+@item
 @cindex inside string
 Non-@code{nil} if inside a string.  More precisely, this is the
 character that will terminate the string, or @code{t} if a generic
 string delimiter character should terminate it.
 
-@item 
+@item
 @cindex inside comment
 @code{t} if inside a comment (of either style),
 or the comment nesting level if inside a kind of comment
 that can be nested.
 
-@item 
+@item
 @cindex quote character
 @code{t} if point is just after a quote character.
 
-@item 
+@item
 The minimum parenthesis depth encountered during this scan.
 
 @item
@@ -769,6 +769,10 @@ necessary make this variable @code{nil}, since not every newline is the
 end of a comment.  This limitation no longer exists.
 @end defvar
 
+@vindex parse-sexp-lookup-properties
+The behaviour of @code{parse-partial-sexp} is also affected by
+@code{parse-sexp-lookup-properties} (@pxref{Syntax Properties}).
+
 You can use @code{forward-comment} to move forward or backward over
 one comment or several comments.
 
@@ -781,7 +785,9 @@ other than a comment or whitespace, it stops, leaving point at the
 place where it stopped.  This includes (for instance) finding the end
 of a comment when moving forward and expecting the beginning of one.
 The function also stops immediately after moving over the specified
-number of complete comments.
+number of complete comments.  If @var{count} comments are found as
+expected, with nothing except whitespace between them, it returns
+@code{t}; otherwise it returns @code{nil}.
 
 This function cannot tell whether the ``comments'' it traverses are
 embedded within a string.  If they look like comments, it treats them
@@ -1061,3 +1067,7 @@ This function describes the category specifications in the current
 category table.  The descriptions are inserted in a buffer, which is
 then displayed.
 @end deffn
+
+@ignore
+   arch-tag: 4d914e96-0283-445c-9233-75d33662908c
+@end ignore