Re: 23.0.60; html-mode syntactic fontification error at line 164

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> This is a rather strange fontification error. Sometimes lines after a 
> certain line or the last part of the line itself gets fontified as 
> strings (which is incorrect) and sometimes not. I do not believe I am 
> able to make a simple example of this. Instead I have put up a copy of 
> the file where I saw it on the web:
> 
>   http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/DL/html-syntactic-err-l164.html
> 
> To reproduce the error download this file, start Emacs with
> 
>   emacs -Q
> 
> open the file (switch to html-mode if it is not opened in html-mode) and 
> go to line 164. There can be a little bit different errors, but the most 
> common is that the lines below this line are fontified as string. I 
> found right now that if I do
> 
>   M-g g 164
> 
> then I see the error above. However if I scroll down line by line to 
> line 164 then the fontification is ok.
> 
> For other versions of misfontification I am not sure how to reproduce 
> them at the moment.

I think that this problem is related to > characters that are not part 
of a tag. parse-partial-sexp can return negative values for parent depth 
when it find such character.