Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to have had any noticable effect. -lipp ps: I had to hand apply the patch to the most recent 21.2 version of "font-lock.el" (1.76.2.28); I'm attaching what I ended up with.... -----Original Message----- From: Matt Tucker To: XEmacs Beta Cc: Damon Lipparelli Sent: 2/10/01 9:00 PM Subject: Re: font-lock problems with 2/9/2001 build -- Jeff Miller <jmiller(a)cablespeed.com&gt; spake thusly: I would agree (that it's due to lacking that patch). Damon, do you think you could try the attached patch and see if it fixes the problem? If it does, perhaps Ben should get that patch committed soon? <<font-lock.el-slow.syntax.patch>>