To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers usually do not have translators to read other languages for them. Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list, and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group. Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: The included 25600 byte 879 line file (gzip uuencode) which contains only open and close parens, spaces, and newlines, (except for "Top(" at top of file) gives mode line message "mismatched parenthesis" on the fourth paren added at start of empty line 879, but gives message "Matches Top(" when added at end of line 878. Adding one space and four parens at end of line 878 also gives "mismatched parenthesis". $ wc testing 879 1776 25600 testing $ sha1sum testing f6693c2ca58ada64f14e517b03c2e6039ba40885 testing $ gzip testing $ sha1sum testing.gz faff72a6a4836196374c020f761688d027e03557 testing.gz $ wc testing.gz 10 47 2039 testing.gz $ gmimeuuencode -m testing.gz testing.gz begin-base64 664 testing.gz H4sICBHQmUsAA3Rlc3RpbmcA7V1JluQoDN37FCzFffoe3fdfdabNoOFLgIeojMrgvcqwQTNCSNgR 9c+//9GWvhtRKi2n9N2132/lX28Crv3VzeJNNzI9eYnSSbYNF+OLEVJaX9A2IkxCdT7GkNaM44ow 6CH35hDiS4y8KSx+b1EKokQidyQWT4ydxAODqEv3Ld9fJnAC4x0oDJuDQtBV9BIVQ7Q7Wk49elH/ yHmPgCUEZoZWAQzDL3pDbd4PILddIMlua28y1471vThQcHJbHxwQh4KByeNRSZLAFbun4hM+DauW 6snwskiK42TmvUjZmQVU6WUfOtd1RRxDSIlxw7k8vMdj25iEOmD/W2h5MEF2TleC0kEhxDDGBNBa tIhkt+kluyiGih8k3TvxyoaO+yWqDZVIADRP3P+bxllvApxepMdI/jKwqR532WH7t/m2QdJM8zH+ 5grzoVWtMwBr8XbsNw2ix7gOvdtvxXaGB4qDgj2kwQxo98R9g5tYEdc0a3Wbx2NFs1w/fLWYblY7 uNzZ8M2hrLEwuaL2OL8XQpZOlGd6N5WKSi54dBSrX1EnsR03crQnI+WTZyWsLMdzdb5O1DKka0U2 aLlJzRJxdnVYziRhFLkcnmzG84Z1aDGcaCmyTTnTwP2Bo700dE1LtZdZXplPzMN5tqUzr1Z0WUKU NVc68so26aQquKBlVVocnmWVHpjB0oUYzG+5f8+RLUqmYSzdTcEqUhiB0m42aV0T9EIAW2N7Goh+ VCmjpnmjGy7PsDRyw7UrAid+C9omO8yBgcaWyANmATTbByagH6XtgucOPFEQDbjMNDOn5Iw6jkPm QtM48LI5Hgnzg/R+bn0SbW01dCqSyIApbmse/Lt4ARdG95+VCuSE1z993bZm7TZ1YPAHg4Ej3bVK 5Nwi+st4X8O+KLk72789FJnjMUmGZ/0uccYmfGbzybNn2tvl2WvQv2iBWcjPhv+gLJ8N/2fxvob9 qg3/GvavjGZhzlA65HEhA4CLncJbKxs7htTnvKk+vGAOxDURh479+JST/4YlMdyeCZAHBh6RpPp2 0GENjjsiUy7nMfRsZnb1IkJtmvsDlB3tqbFghiY1fgNEvlYoSQrHlQ2anEeE/zUIWffFQnWxmOwj KCPijquIJCHkvQMjOjahqbFysaB4CKgeP0GYFSBtamVdENF6t45DNcjosHoHETMf1oXEhnKdRqXz AJEaR3SPT+S6IOL10MfJLWrIqRliBcrs9Dr+dCLljQHUO4wzFXhLcgZ6W0yUXPDlhOtERruOMsDI GzKLtB+bzc0zI4FLGZ/6bmVEw/PiCfwmop0gsAvFVwqavBHBjOd8iNZfSGBrU9tXDeM+2v+ibX3a GPctDfTq9aQopyrO21fo65EumOwMu5hxQBjIYyn4sApipRmUgeRjIUIeZ7RyiSGSl8k93bnquSNN XrFKn17XE6vl0rwC+kv0pidDo2SxeRBPFM+EoRve9dzMnX5PUlVA5NfejVgrgBHHTMRfqP3ANtgk 0hNeR9QCp1UjytofzBAzpf5ir8w8QeUYj/0YbA7HRkTxiq5gGo9B27ePjs+jc/+rJ0Wz71fZgBSd oCQG1EUPA1+dY4WanSi/3L8laMkfwd/hPUXYR8ouylmi2dMCgK+4gNG/OqKVr43MSIJkmBSMCrQU sI2xQNZCnFxlxEEFcANdgvX9x/Med3L9gTNGXVruA0/3530Jbnb4TnXVG0fqC9ErWWNP5hoJcPQC d4Y4GfXDH5nUxgxAATBZJMVimpz7t2gZZt8oM4PoO11B7ZdHbpzrIZBi8vgpwh21vG6qDlrS4eka 8LrGNx32PFEewwJ3pqY8jYhRVtokynAKBNgz7rYCfJ+IO8bVowUj/Pgs5MT0P7oQl33r/HHPdWuv iPvEVNxkW3S8tJgqLIl1JhicgpliZL9Sjt4BKZfy/Mr97qcB1AkeqU+Q1iiMDeJVXu1G/KRNhzLf w75AAXmCzY1UnR6isHYG5zrSqVRxkoB1mrySSeQ6bfztIvkiAZNIDmOkJ5HRGNRqzvS2emsDEr+L 1Y07+dRMtUWsAbjQLTqLC3msgccIq1Z5OlVftfdDsNOvI4s2ejcfsRHFomDH3uBRsth7H1u3GBug ktPj1uxalhzd9Ro51w/3MYfeszgbeFwyNRtiAiwRsVcDkgSvj1BPx2maaur1laARuKqEUyobc7Wa PXXIIGEAjLU57U8q6p8rdU7cFUTj2nc7/ODkj4mB2e4gIIWIz/yilkXGNa97Tb6gkmVQqkbi/NYE kgRuU3D+D3WRakD1UfDRcWEyWFJx5ereyBggsZLSMCPCYzsluH5pOGjW/qUfnFmaN9/YaaxInoyI mLOf40piUT3j47LEzp3qG0u3hEJwcV/pzkaQFfd1wevisH6GmR6boMN6U59eA+nrqpIWcg6txLnN QsbmvHc2ornwpwJKsyIQeXeVqhguUXhA53YqKeknHH1vCqjYHMUN0RPrMt7danDW8qgOm52ekWZW FODSlsSDS26ATBGQ80CtXjJ/GFgLCgh+LNtNMUIRzI/Rqw67H9ZHxeXG5weCUMnAzYYHvhshWJdv QLbiX0+v8y6814/h7Pt77X9O6E/84FXmXh8eqfIzSVV8rcR+VLeBqOW8dDBoQU6dZWerjVgBk+1+ iqvMqWz7mtqbntLQz9QvdADVebaFbDSTaNnm1KtJpdYHqe1/IAAXxgBkAAA= ==== $ gmimeuuencode -m testing.gz testing.gz | sha1sum 515be16839aa403b162f05a013dbab9b65c6effa - $ If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger, please include the output from the following gdb commands: `bt full' and `xbacktrace'. If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file /usr/share/emacs/23.1/etc/DEBUG for instructions. In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.6) of 2009-12-03 on x86-3.fedora.phx.redhat.com Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10503000 configured using `configure '--build=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=i586-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-dbus' '--with-gif' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png' '--with-rsvg' '--with-tiff' '--with-xft' '--with-xpm' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'build_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=i586-redhat-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i586 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables'' 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: en_US.utf8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: cua-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t global-auto-composition-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t -- Edward J. Huff