font-lock and autoload is broken

Currently, I have to use an old version of font-lock.el and a locally patched version of autoload.el just to get through my day. Without the old font-lock.el XEmacs just sits there eating up the CPU whenever it tries to fontify anything. It doesn't crash, but nothing can be done until after repeated C-g's. And I can't build the packages with the current autoload.el. I get an "Unbalanced Parentheses" error when trying to create auto-autoloads. I'm pretty sure that both of these things are related to Matt Tucker's recent syntax-table tom-foolery (no offense Matt, I'm angry at my computer, not you). Matt, could you please, please fix this. -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 9E7E2820>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---|