Rework C source files to avoid ^(

[gnu-emacs] / src / syntax.c

diff --git a/src/syntax.c b/src/syntax.c
index 8b5cc1df4075e767f2961d5eae4b0afb2c4fd831..8e14bf3fb1d6001724b1009962dc6a358e30b106 100644 (file)
--- a/src/syntax.c
+++ b/src/syntax.c
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ This file is part of GNU Emacs.
 
 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-(at your option) any later version.
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at
+your option) any later version.
 
 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
@@ -1536,9 +1536,15 @@ DEFUN ("forward-word", Fforward_word, Sforward_word, 0, 1, "^p",
        doc: /* Move point forward ARG words (backward if ARG is negative).
 If ARG is omitted or nil, move point forward one word.
 Normally returns t.
-If an edge of the buffer or a field boundary is reached, point is left there
-and the function returns nil.  Field boundaries are not noticed if
-`inhibit-field-text-motion' is non-nil.  */)
+If an edge of the buffer or a field boundary is reached, point is
+left there and the function returns nil.  Field boundaries are not
+noticed if `inhibit-field-text-motion' is non-nil.
+
+The word boundaries are normally determined by the buffer's syntax
+table, but `find-word-boundary-function-table', such as set up
+by `subword-mode', can change that.  If a Lisp program needs to
+move by words determined strictly by the syntax table, it should
+use `forward-word-strictly' instead.  */)
   (Lisp_Object arg)
 {
   Lisp_Object tmp;