The build from 2013-02-17 broke not only whether/when font-locking occurs (see bugs #13751 and #13730). It broke also what gets highlighted. A build from Feb 15 shows no font-lock problems. See the two attached screenshots. The one from 02-17 does not highlight the command name (`icicle-customize-apropos-options-of-type') completely, as it should and as does the one from 02-15. Attached are also files showing the values of `font-lock-keywords' in an Emacs Lisp buffer from builds of Feb 15 and Feb 17. Diffing them shows something interesting to you, perhaps (doesn't do much for me). But what is significant here is that the part that should govern the highlighting that I notice broken is identical. So something else is wrong, somewhere. In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2013-02-17 on VBOX-W7 Bzr revision: 111822 rgm@gnu.org-20130217190146-mm9bh3227ev56bus Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 Configured using: `configure --with-gcc (4.7) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags -IC:/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.10/include -IC:/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.10/src -IC:/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1_win32/include -IC:/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2_win32/include -IC:/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1-lib/include -IC:/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4-lib/include -IC:/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1-lib/include -IC:/emacs/libs/libxml2-2.7.8-w32-bin/include/libxml2 -IC:/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.1.8-w32/include -IC:/emacs/libs/libiconv-1.14-2-mingw32-dev/include'