Shorten some ppss struct field names

* lisp/emacs-lisp/syntax.el (ppss): Capitalize docstrings.
(ppss-comment-depth): Renamed from ppss-comment-nesting.
(ppss-quoted-p): Renamed from ppss-after-quote-p.
(ppss-min-depth): Renamed from ppss-minimum-paren-depth.
(ppss-open-parens): Renamed from ppss-open-paren-positions.
* etc/NEWS: Announce the ppss-* accessors.

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 380ac71260d..e9dfd266b46 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -3352,6 +3352,14 @@ backslash, although there is no harm in doing so to make the code
 easier to edit with an older Emacs version.
 
 ---
+** New symbolic accessor functions for a parse state list.
+The new accessor functions 'ppss-depth', 'ppss-list-start',
+'ppss-last-sexp-start', 'ppss-string-terminator', 'comment-depth',
+'quoted-p', 'comment-style', 'comment-or-string-start', 'open-parens',
+and 'two-character-syntax' can be used on the list value returned by
+'parse-partial-sexp' and 'syntax-ppss'.
+
+---
 ** The 'server-name' and 'server-socket-dir' variables are set when a
 socket has been passed to Emacs.
 
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/syntax.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/syntax.el
index 6b464bcb13a..11cc1988b1f 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/syntax.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/syntax.el
@@ -89,33 +89,33 @@ Put first the functions more likely to cause a change and cheaper to compute.")
                (:constructor make-ppss)
                (:copier nil)
                (:type list))
-  (depth nil :documentation "depth in parens")
+  (depth nil :documentation "Depth in parens.")
   (innermost-start
    nil :documentation
-   "character address of start of innermost containing list; nil if none.")
+   "Character address of start of innermost containing list; nil if none.")
   (last-complete-sexp-start
    nil :documentation
-   "character address of start of last complete sexp terminated.")
+   "Character address of start of last complete sexp terminated.")
   (string-terminator nil :documentation "\
-non-nil if inside a string.
-(it is the character that will terminate the string, or t if the
+Non-nil if inside a string.
+\(it is the character that will terminate the string, or t if the
 string should be terminated by a generic string delimiter.)")
-  (comment-nesting nil :documentation "\
+  (comment-depth nil :documentation "\
 nil if outside a comment, t if inside a non-nestable comment,
 else an integer (the current comment nesting).")
-  (after-quote-p nil :documentation "t if following a quote character.")
-  (minimum-paren-depth
-   nil :documentation "the minimum paren-depth encountered during this scan.")
-  (comment-style nil :documentation "style of comment, if any.")
+  (quoted-p nil :documentation "t if following a quote character.")
+  (min-depth
+   nil :documentation "The minimum depth in parens encountered during this scan.")
+  (comment-style nil :documentation "Style of comment, if any.")
   (comment-or-string-start
    nil :documentation
-   "character address of start of comment or string; nil if not in one.")
-  (open-paren-positions
+   "Character address of start of comment or string; nil if not in one.")
+  (open-parens
    nil :documentation
    "List of positions of currently open parens, outermost first.")
   (two-character-syntax nil :documentation "\
 When the last position scanned holds the first character of a
-(potential) two character construct, the syntax of that position,
+\(potential) two character construct, the syntax of that position,
 otherwise nil.  That construct can be a two character comment
 delimiter or an Escaped or Char-quoted character."))