Re: fontification broken in CVS (perl/auctex)

[Richard Stallman]

    fontification/syntax highlighting is broken in current CVS emacs
     eg.

     Loading perl-mode...done
     Font-Lock mode enabled
     Loading font-lock...done
     Loading jit-lock...done
     Error during redisplay: (invalid-function (^\(=\)\sw (1 < b)))

Would you please provide a complete self-contained test case for this?
I do not know Perl and I have only one Perl program to test this with.
That error did not occur for me.

I did observe a different problem, and this fixed it for me.  Does it
fix your problem for you?

*** font-lock.el        24 Jun 2004 19:32:27 -0400      1.222
--- font-lock.el        27 Jun 2004 00:45:14 -0400      
***************
*** 1257,1263 ****
                                        font-lock-syntactic-keywords)))
    ;; Get down to business.
    (let ((case-fold-search font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search)
!       (keywords (cdr font-lock-syntactic-keywords))
        keyword matcher highlights)
      (while keywords
        ;; Find an occurrence of `matcher' from `start' to `end'.
--- 1257,1263 ----
                                        font-lock-syntactic-keywords)))
    ;; Get down to business.
    (let ((case-fold-search font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search)
!       (keywords (cddr font-lock-syntactic-keywords))
        keyword matcher highlights)
      (while keywords
        ;; Find an occurrence of `matcher' from `start' to `end'.