Re: Error during redisplay: (error No match 3 in highlight (3 (quote (7))))

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I just do not understand what the error mean. Can someone please shed
>> some light upon it?
> It means that a font-lock pattern referenced a subexp of a regexp that
> does not exist or did not match, i.e. (match-beginning 3) returned nil.

Exactly.  And the (7) indicates it's probably one of the rules in
font-lock-syntactic-keywords rather than in font-lock-keywords.  i.e. it
either means one of the rules in font-lock-syntactic-keywords is using
the wrong group number, or it needs to be tweaked to set the
LAXMATCH option.


        Stefan