* lisp/emacs-lisp/derived.el (define-derived-mode): Doc fix.

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 91078ce3246..9533d43f572 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 2011-08-25  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
+        * emacs-lisp/derived.el (define-derived-mode): Doc fix.
+
         * mail/smtpmail.el (smtpmail-smtp-user): Add version: tag.
         (smtpmail-via-smtp): Handle nil response from smtp.
 
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/derived.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/derived.el
index 4fda2bf1d52..81932f9940a 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/derived.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/derived.el
@@ -133,10 +133,10 @@ BODY can start with a bunch of keyword arguments.  The following keyword
         Declare the customization group that corresponds to this mode.
         The command `customize-mode' uses this.
 :syntax-table TABLE
-        Use TABLE instead of the default.
+        Use TABLE instead of the default (CHILD-syntax-table).
         A nil value means to simply use the same syntax-table as the parent.
 :abbrev-table TABLE
-        Use TABLE instead of the default.
+        Use TABLE instead of the default (CHILD-abbrev-table).
         A nil value means to simply use the same abbrev-table as the parent.
 
 Here is how you could define LaTeX-Thesis mode as a variant of LaTeX mode: