Write a multi-line raw string literal in c++-mode, and font lock doesn't show the correct syntax highlighting. Sample code: const char* s1 = R"foo( Hello World )foo"; const char* s2 = R"( Hello World )"; In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0, NS appkit-1561.60 Version 10.13.6 (Build 17G65)) of 2019-01-04 built on C02WP42JHTD6 Repository revision: fe4922cbf01fa9161ffa142fc70972098d48186f Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1561 System Description: Mac OS X 10.13.6 Recent messages: Mark set next-line: End of buffer [15 times] Mark set next-line: End of buffer [14 times] Saving file /Users/lifeng/Desktop/test.cpp... Wrote /Users/lifeng/Desktop/test.cpp Mark set [6 times] Undo! Making completion list... user-error: End of history; no default available [2 times] Configured using: 'configure --with-modules' Configured features: RSVG GLIB NOTIFY KQUEUE ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS MODULES THREADS JSON LCMS2 GMP Important settings: value of $LANG: en_AU.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: C++//l Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t abbrev-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils thingatpt cc-mode cc-fonts easymenu cc-guess cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs cl-loaddefs cl-lib elec-pair tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/ns-win ns-win ucs-normalize mule-util term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads kqueue cocoa ns lcms2 multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 227619 13680) (symbols 48 22362 1) (strings 32 35100 1976) (string-bytes 1 1069317) (vectors 16 37950) (vector-slots 8 757597 18070) (floats 8 47 152) (intervals 56 520 0) (buffers 992 14))