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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/syntax.texi | 8 |
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diff --git a/doc/lispref/syntax.texi b/doc/lispref/syntax.texi index b4bd48771f0..58f07c9644d 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/syntax.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/syntax.texi @@ -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 |