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

From: Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 14:13:31 +0200

On 11.05.2016 11:20, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the info. Is there a test-case resp. bug-report describing 
the original problem?
IMO it needs a different solution than now.