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Correct the lispref manual about flushing ppss info

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* doc/lispref/syntax.texi (Syntax Properties): Correct the
information about flushing the state by copying the text from the
doc string (bug#46274).
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Lars Ingebrigtsen 2021-02-05 09:36:58 +01:00
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@ -573,10 +573,10 @@ and by Font Lock mode during syntactic fontification (@pxref{Syntactic
Font Lock}). It is called with two arguments, @var{start} and
@var{end}, which are the starting and ending positions of the text on
which it should act. It is allowed to call @code{syntax-ppss} on any
position before @var{end}. However, it should not call
@code{syntax-ppss-flush-cache}; so, it is not allowed to call
@code{syntax-ppss} on some position and later modify the buffer at an
earlier position.
position before @var{end}, but if it calls @code{syntax-ppss} on some
position and later modifies the buffer on some earlier position,
then it is its responsibility to call @code{syntax-ppss-flush-cache}
to flush the now obsolete info from the cache.
@strong{Caution:} When this variable is non-@code{nil}, Emacs removes
@code{syntax-table} text properties arbitrarily and relies on