Re: perl mode color highlighting working badly

[Richard M. Stallman]

    > jit-lock breaks font-lock's handling of syntax-table properties anyway.
    > Having syntactic properties behave correctly only for positions
    > preceding `font-lock-syntactically-fontified' means that I can't parse
    > text after that position reliably with `parse-sexp-lookup-properties'
    > non-nil.

    But the same problem happens without jit-lock if you don't turn on
    font-lock.

How is this?  Would you please explain what this problem is?

                Actually, in my experience, most/all the weird corner cases that
    seem to be caused by jit-lock can be reproduced without jit-lock.

Perhaps we should define a simple function that someone can call to
update the syntax-table properties for a certain region.