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 <h2 class="chapter">Syntax Tables</h2>    <p>A <em>syntax table</em> specifies the syntactic role of each character in a buffer. It can be used to determine where words, symbols, and other syntactic constructs begin and end. This information is used by many Emacs facilities, including Font Lock mode (see <a href="font-lock-mode">Font Lock Mode</a>) and the various complex movement commands (see <a href="motion">Motion</a>). </p> <table class="menu" border="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="syntax-basics" accesskey="1">Basics</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Basic concepts of syntax tables. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="syntax-descriptors" accesskey="2">Syntax Descriptors</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">How characters are classified. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="syntax-table-functions" accesskey="3">Syntax Table Functions</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">How to create, examine and alter syntax tables. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="syntax-properties" accesskey="4">Syntax Properties</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Overriding syntax with text properties. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="motion-and-syntax" accesskey="5">Motion and Syntax</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Moving over characters with certain syntaxes. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="parsing-expressions" accesskey="6">Parsing Expressions</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Parsing balanced expressions using the syntax table. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="syntax-table-internals" accesskey="7">Syntax Table Internals</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">How syntax table information is stored. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="categories" accesskey="8">Categories</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Another way of classifying character syntax. </td>
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