BM> I've been writing a lot in LaTeX last time and noticed that XEmacs BM> interprets incorrectly the "\$" sequence. It treats it as if it was a math BM> formula starting while it's just a shell-variable name's starting. Like BM> here : The shell varaible {\tt \$blah} ...". XEmacs starts to highlight BM> everything green. And it even doesn't end with next "\$" sequence, but BM> sometimes earlier (on a newline for example). BM> It refers to XEmacs v20.4 on a Linux 2.0.34 on an Pentium box. I got BM> the precompiled version from a mirror site. Same for 21.0. The right patch would be to fix the syntax class `character quote'... Here is a workaround... - Christoph 1998-07-20 Christoph Wedler <wedler(a)fmi.uni-passau.de&gt; * tex-mode.el (tex-common-initialization): Use syntax class `escape' for \. Syntax class `character quote' only works for `forward-sexp' and friends. diff -c /home/clstaff/wedler/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/texinfo/tex-mode.el~ /home/clstaff/wedler/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/texinfo/tex-mode.el *** /home/clstaff/wedler/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/texinfo/tex-mode.el~ Mon Jul 20 11:01:31 1998 --- /home/clstaff/wedler/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/texinfo/tex-mode.el Mon Jul 20 11:01:31 1998 *************** *** 406,412 **** (modify-syntax-entry ?\f ">") (modify-syntax-entry ?$ "$$") (modify-syntax-entry ?% "<") ! (modify-syntax-entry ?\\ "/") (modify-syntax-entry ?\" ".") (modify-syntax-entry ?& ".") (modify-syntax-entry ?_ ".") --- 406,412 ---- (modify-syntax-entry ?\f ">") (modify-syntax-entry ?$ "$$") (modify-syntax-entry ?% "<") ! (modify-syntax-entry ?\\ "\\") (modify-syntax-entry ?\" ".") (modify-syntax-entry ?& ".") (modify-syntax-entry ?_ ".")