Subject: Re: bug#23443: 25.0.93; Temporary change to syntax-table is in effect during syntax-propertize

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 12:20:02 +0300

On 05/11/2016 08:20 AM, Andreas Röhler wrote:
> Do you recall what
> the mentioned longstanding problem was?

The problem was scan-lists not always honoring the syntax defined by 
syntax-propertize-function. Because it could behave differently 
depending on whether the nearby parts of the buffer had been already 
syntax-propertized.