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 The Syntax Table
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    All the Emacs commands which parse words or balance parentheses are
 controlled by the "syntax table".  The syntax table says which
 characters are opening delimiters, which are parts of words, which are
 string quotes, and so on.  Each major mode has its own syntax table
 (though sometimes related major modes use the same one) which it
 installs in each buffer that uses that major mode.  The syntax table
 installed in the current buffer is the one that all commands use, so we
 call it "the" syntax table.  A syntax table is a Lisp object, a
 char-table, whose elements are numbers.
 
    To display a description of the contents of the current syntax table,
 type `C-h s' (`describe-syntax').  The description of each character
 includes both the string you would have to give to
 `modify-syntax-entry' to set up that character's current syntax, and
 some English to explain that string if necessary.
 
    For full information on the syntax table, see  Syntax Tables
 (elisp)Syntax Tables.

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