(describe-char-after): Use `internal-describe-syntax-value' again.

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index fbaa35baefb..8e517cc4fe1 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2002-03-17  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@cs.yale.edu>
 
+        * international/mule-diag.el (describe-char-after):
+        Use `internal-describe-syntax-value' again (got lost somewhere).
+
         * international/ucs-tables.el (ucs-unify-8859, ucs-fragment-8859):
         Use unify-8859-on-decoding-mode.
         (unify-8859-on-decoding-mode): Also set translation-table-for-input.
diff --git a/lisp/international/mule-diag.el b/lisp/international/mule-diag.el
index 2911f7fd4c6..ebd9a44ce55 100644
--- a/lisp/international/mule-diag.el
+++ b/lisp/international/mule-diag.el
@@ -576,17 +576,12 @@ which font is being used for displaying the character."
                       (format "%d" (nth 1 split))
                     (format "%d %d" (nth 1 split) (nth 2 split)))))
               ("syntax"
-               ,(let* ((old-table (syntax-table))
-                       (table (get-char-property (point) 'syntax-table)))
-                  (if (consp table)
-                      (nth 1 (assq (car table)
-                                   (mapcar #'cdr syntax-code-table)))
-                    (unwind-protect
-                        (progn
-                          (if (syntax-table-p table)
-                              (set-syntax-table table))
-                          (nth 2 (assq (char-syntax char) syntax-code-table)))
-                      (set-syntax-table old-table)))))
+               ,(let ((syntax (get-char-property (point) 'syntax-table)))
+                  (with-temp-buffer
+                    (internal-describe-syntax-value
+                     (if (consp syntax) syntax
+                       (aref (or syntax (syntax-table)) char)))
+                    (buffer-string))))
               ("category"
                ,@(let ((category-set (char-category-set char)))
                    (if (not category-set)