Re: font-lock fails

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Roland Winkler wrote:

> (5) Font-lock fails towards the end of the file, i.e., font-lock
>     chooses the wrong faces. For example, the comments between the
>     defcustoms are highlighted like a string.

That's because you have a parenthesis in column zero there:

>   "*Assoc list specifying the available executables.
> Each item has the form \(RELEASE MAPLE MAPLE-INIFILE MINT\)
> where RELEASE is the Maple release corresponding to the
> executables MAPLE and MINT.  MAPLE must be the command line
> (non-GUI) version of Maple.  MAPLE-INIFILE is the maple

For efficiency reasons, Emacs puts a lot of faith in parentheses that are 
in column zero.  Escape them with a backslash, and the problem will go 
away.  It's in PROBLEMS, btw (which explains how to solve this if you 
don't want to escape the parens).