-- ShengHuo ZHU <zsh(a)cs.rochester.edu&gt; spake thusly: I sent a message regarding this issue to the review board when the syntax-table patch was applied, but I'm sure it would benefit everyone else. Here's a copy: --------- Begin Forwarded Message --------- Date: Saturday, February 10, 2001 04:01:02 PM -0800 From: Matt Tucker <tuck(a)whistlingfish.net&gt; To: xemacs-review(a)xemacs.org Subject: Re: [21.2] Matt Tucker's syntax tables patch I also wanted to comment that this patch either causes or exposes a bug with autoload.el. I still need to track it down, but in short with this patch autoload will choke on any lisp file that contains unquoted '|' (pipe) characters. The following patch will provide a temporary fix until I can figure out why the behavior is different pre- and post- syntax-table patch: Index: autoload.el =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs/lisp/autoload.el,v retrieving revision 1.2.2.7 diff -u -r1.2.2.7 autoload.el --- autoload.el 2000/09/20 02:39:08 1.2.2.7 +++ autoload.el 2001/02/08 17:34:25 ＠＠ -167,7 +167,7 ＠＠ (let ((find-file-hooks nil) (enable-local-variables nil)) (set-buffer (or visited (find-file-noselect file))) - (set-syntax-table lisp-mode-syntax-table)) + (set-syntax-table emacs-lisp-mode-syntax-table)) (save-excursion (save-restriction (widen) It may be that this ends up being the correct solution, but I'd like to be able to say that for certain instead of just being content with it and not understanding why. ---------- End Forwarded Message ----------