Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: Changes in font locking

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2007-03-11) writes:
>
>> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> That's due to a bug in XEmacs 21.5 related to the function
>>> `with-syntax-table' I reported over two years ago to the XEmacs
>>> project.  See <URL:http://mid.gmane.org/cp7323$qm7$1%40sea.gmane.org>.
>
> Removing the call to `copy-syntax-table' from the macro seems to fix it.

Which macro, which call?  The problem you reported was

    Using a fresh CVS checkout of XEmacs trunk the following snippet
    returns "1" when evaluated whereas it returns "5" in GNU Emacs 21.3,
    CVS GNU Emacs and XEmacs 21.4.15.

    (with-temp-buffer
      (with-syntax-table (make-syntax-table)
        (insert "foo bar")
        (backward-sexp 1)
        (point)))

    If `set-syntax-table' is used instead of `with-syntax-table', CVS
    XEmacs returns "5" as well, so I suppose that there is a problem in
    `with-syntax-table' or a function called by it.

You presumably mean the macro `with-syntax-table', but it might be a
good idea to explicitly say so and quote the code in question.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum