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The syntax table tells Emacs which characters are part of a word, which characters balance each other like parentheses, etc. See section ¹1/2Ê¸¥Æ¡1/4¥Ö¥ë.

http://flex.ee.uec.ac.jp/texi/emacs-jp/emacs-jp_240.html

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a char-table (see Char-Tables )

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/elisp-manual/html_mono/elisp.html

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a Lisp object, a char-table, whose elements are numbers

http://database.sarang.net/study/emacs/emacs.html

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an array indexed by the characters in your character set

http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/regex/regex.html

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The syntax table tells Emacs which characters are part of a word, which characters balance each other like parentheses, etc. See section AD.6 The Syntax Table.

http://jamesthornton.com/emacs/node/emacs_573.html

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