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Font Lock mode can be used to update syntax-table properties
automatically. This is useful in languages for which a single syntax
table by itself is not sufficient.
This variable enables and controls syntactic Font Lock. Its value should be a list of elements of this form:
(matcher subexp syntax override laxmatch)The parts of this element have the same meanings as in the corresponding sort of element of
font-lock-keywords,(matcher subexp facename override laxmatch)However, instead of specifying the value facename to use for the
faceproperty, it specifies the value syntax to use for thesyntax-tableproperty. Here, syntax can be a variable whose value is a syntax table, a syntax entry of the form(syntax-code.matching-char), or an expression whose value is one of those two types.