Hi. This is very similar to http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=19669 but with different input. I'm running an emacs built from 65ac8bc (master branch as of 2015/4/18) Recipe: 1. emacs -nw -Q tst.c (open attached source) 2. C-n C-o // (navigate to next line, start a new comment) At this point, the buffer looks like the attached image. Note that at step 2, the coloration of the 3rd and 5th arguments changed. This is wrong. In normal use I see this popping up in response to various inputs, not just starting a comment in some arbitrary place. Thanks