Hello! In `emacs-lisp-mode', the counting of the nesting level of forms seems to be broken in some subtle way. Consider e.g. (form ( ) WEIRD HIGHLIGHT x) ;; Unexepected Indentation It looks like "WEIRD HIGHLIGHT" is wrongly highlighted as junk after a surplus closing parenthesis, and the subsequent form is also weirdly indented. So this particular example is artificial, it occurred for me when I was writing testing-code with in some personal emacs-lisp project: ;; Example from actual code (abbreviated) (ert-deftest expr--parser-rule-def-firsts () (myert-test-results #'expr--parser-rule-def-firsts `("The `firsts' function doesn't yet enforce, that every rule must have a resolvable first." (((&def RuleA RuleB) (&def RuleB RuleA))) => WEIRD-HIGHLIGHT-HERE :WEIRD-INDENTATION-HERE))) I confirmed the issue in Emacs 25.1.1 64bit (from Chocolatey), running that same Emacs with "runemacs -q", and with Emacs 26.0.50.1 (self-compiled). For reference I have attached an elisp file with examples and a screenshot of how it looks on my system. regards, Klaus -------------------------------------------------- In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2016-09-17 built on KAEL Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.14393 Configured using: 'configure --prefix=/tmp/emacs --without-imagemagick 'CFLAGS=-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -g0'' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND DBUS NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS Important settings: value of $LANG: DEA locale-coding-system: cp1252 Major mode: Emacs-Lisp Minor modes in effect: diff-auto-refine-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-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 auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message dired format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epg epg-config gnus-util mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns help-mode cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib mail-prsvr mail-utils vc-git diff-mode easymenu easy-mmode time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp disp-table w32-win w32-vars term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cl-generic 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 charscript case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote w32notify dbusbind w32 multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 94172 5940) (symbols 56 20219 0) (miscs 48 89 106) (strings 32 17676 3993) (string-bytes 1 489683) (vectors 16 12293) (vector-slots 8 433157 4526) (floats 8 164 100) (intervals 56 581 40) (buffers 976 20)) --=-=-=--