bug#9448: 24.0.50; Comments in Awk scripts not fontified with comment face

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

  emacs -Q
  C-x C-f foo.awk RET

Type "# something" (without quotes).  The comment is not highlighted
in the font-lock-comment face, as expected.  comment-start and
comment-start-skip seem to have reasonable values.


In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.8 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
 of 2011-09-05 on fencepost
configured using `configure  '--enable-asserts' '--enable-checking' '--with-gif=no' '--with-tiff=no''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: RMAIL

Minor modes in effect:
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  savehist-mode: t
  tooltip-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
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
o n SPC a s SPC p a r t SPC o f SPC t h e SPC s t a 
n d a l o n e SPC i n s t a l l e r SPC i s SPC t h 
e SPC o n l y SPC p r a c t i c a l SPC w a y . ESC 
O B RET ESC < ESC > ESC O D ESC O D SPC t h a t SPC 
d o e s n ' t SPC r e q u i r e SPC P y t h i o n ESC 
O D ESC O D DEL ESC O B ESC O D ESC O D ESC b a SPC 
ESC f SPC i n s t a l l a t i o n ESC q ESC O B C-c 
C-c ESC ! ESC O A RET ESC x ESC O A RET ESC O A RET 
C-s 0 8 : 1 8 : 4 1 ESC O B ESC [ 6 ~ ESC [ 6 ~ ESC 
O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B C-x C-x C-w C-x C-s C-x 
k RET C-u g ESC O A RET d d d C-x C-s ESC O B ESC O 
A C-u g ESC O A DEL e w RET d d n d d d d d d d d d 
d d d d d d d d d d d d C-x C-z C-x C-f f o o . a w 
k RET # SPC f o o RET ESC ~ C-x b RET C-x C-z ESC x 
r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g RET

Recent messages:
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Saving file /home/e/eliz/INBOX...
Wrote /home/e/eliz/INBOX [2 times]
Computing summary lines...done
24 new messages read
Showing message 673
Showing message 673...done
No following nondeleted message
(New file)
Modification-flag cleared

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow emacsbug cc-awk shell pcomplete comint ring newcomment
flyspell ispell multi-isearch vc-bzr cc-mode cc-fonts cc-guess
cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs qp
rmailsum rmailmm message sendmail regexp-opt format-spec rfc822 mml
easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailabbrev gmm-utils
mailheader mail-parse rfc2231 rmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util
mail-prsvr mail-utils time paren cus-start cus-load time-date savehist
saveplace tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win
x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page
menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock
syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang
vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek
romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese
case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer
loaddefs button faces cus-face files text-properties overlay sha1 md5
base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process
dynamic-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x
multi-tty emacs)