HS <g_reate_xcalibur@yahoo.com> writes:
First of all, my apologies for the cross postings, but I figured the
problem could be solved by anyone in all these groups.
It is to do with font lock in emacs for Latex.
I have Auctex installed (ver 10.0g, release 4) with emacs (ver. 21.2
release 18) on Redhat Linux 8.0 (kernal 2.4.18-14).
That is entirely unnecessary. 10.0g is utterly outdated. There are
RedHat RPM files available from the download site accessible from
AUCTeX's home site, <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/>, and I
would recommend 11.14 (the "beta" is just nominal here).
It is quite likely that will make your problems go away.