bug#30538: Elisp manual doesn't say how to get a raw syntax descriptor of a character.

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Eli.

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 20:57:58 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:32:33 +0000
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>

> > The title says it all.  Actually, in the early part of the Elisp manual,
> > it does say that `aref' works on char-tables.  And around the syntax part
> > of the manual, much later, it says that syntax tables are char-tables.

> > This makes it far too much work for somebody to find out what to do.
> > Therefore I suggest the following amendment, for Emacs-26:

> OK, but:

>   . this should have an appropriate index entry, to allow finding this
>     stuff easily
>   . please take the code snipped in @w{..}, to avoid splitting it
>     between lines.

I've committed the patch (with the amendments you've requested) and am
closing the bug.

> Thanks.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).