Start emacs with emacs -Q and paste the following text in the scratch buffer ;;;; Start copy ;;;; (defun test (nil) (test1 (test2 "") "***")) ;;;; End copy ;;;; You will see that the last 7 characters of the last line, i.e., "***")) are shown with the wrong face. If you insert a new line before those characters, the correct face is shown. In GNU Emacs 30.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 1.18.0, Xaw scroll bars) of 2025-02-23 built on ublt-ee224 Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101011 System Description: Linux Mint 22.1 Configured using: 'configure --without-pop --without-kerberos --without-kerberos5 --without-hesiod --without-mail-unlink --without-mailhost --with-x-toolkit=lucid --with-file-notification=inotify --with-x --with-modules --with-json --with-xft' Configured features: CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG LCMS2 LIBSELINUX LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP X11 XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM LUCID ZLIB Important settings: value of $LC_TIME: en_GB.utf8 value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: delete-selection-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t eldoc-mode: t show-paren-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 minibuffer-regexp-mode: t line-number-mode: t indent-tabs-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message mailcap yank-media puny dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util text-property-search mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils crm thingatpt help-fns radix-tree help-mode cus-start cus-load delsel time-date subr-x cl-loaddefs cl-lib rmc iso-transl tooltip cconv eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd touch-screen tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice seq simple cl-generic indonesian philippine 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 emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button loaddefs theme-loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo x-toolkit xinput2 x multi-tty move-toolbar make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 53158 9810) (symbols 48 6703 0) (strings 32 16512 1468) (string-bytes 1 373060) (vectors 16 9889) (vector-slots 8 115868 8907) (floats 8 25 101) (intervals 56 714 66) (buffers 992 11))