Re: font-lock and autoload is broken

-- Steve Youngs <youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt; spake thusly: > 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. I've isolated this bug, but I'm not sure how to fix it. The problem is the following line in syntax.c: scan_sexps_forward (buf, &state, start, end, target, !NILP (stopbefore), oldstate, (NILP (commentstop) ? 0 : (EQ (commentstop, Qsyntax_table) ? -1 : 1))); Specifically, "EQ (commentstop, Qsyntax_table)" is evaluating false, even when 'syntax-table is passed in. If I apply this patch: --- syntax.c 2001/02/09 16:00:37 1.7.2.18 +++ syntax.c 2001/02/16 02:48:06 ＠＠ -1928,6 +1928,9 ＠＠ struct buffer *buf = decode_buffer (buffer, 0); Lisp_Object val; + if (EQ (Qsyntax_table, Qnull_pointer)) + Qsyntax_table = intern ("syntax-table"); + if (!NILP (targetdepth)) { CHECK_INT (targetdepth); it fixes the bug. Obviously this isn't an acceptable solution, but why is Qsyntax_table == 0 when I do the following in vars_of_syntax? Qsyntax_table = intern ("syntax-table"); Comments, anyone?