Re: Missing syntax-table functionality

[Stefan Monnier]

>     It would be nice to have a standard function which would report the
>     syntax of a character within a buffer.  The existing function char-syntax
>     is no longer adequate, since it cannot take account of any syntax-table
>     text property which may have been set at a buffer position.
> 
> The function seems to make sense.  I think that syntax-after is a
> better name for it.

Indeed.  It's such a good name that it's already written (in elisp)
in syntax.el.


        Stefan