Create a C file and fill it with this text: /* mswindows.c -- Windows-specific support Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of Wget. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ Now go to the line beginning with `This program is distributed with...' and evaluate (buffer-syntactic-context). For me, it evaluates to nil, which is bogus because it should be `block-comment'. To see how losing this is, turn on font-lock (if not on already) and try to change that line. You'll see that it is not font-locked correctly. Only after you evaluate (buffer-syntactic-context) before the incriminating paren will the font-locking after it start to work correctly. I assume the bug is due to an optimization in font-lock.c, but I am not sure how to fix it. -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- `VI' - An editor used by those heretics that don't subscribe to the Emacs religion.