This is in response to an ancient post I saw in the archives. I have the same problem. When I went to the cc-mode project on SourceForge, I see they haven't created any downloadable releases past 5.28 (although there's plenty of discussion of 5.29 and 5.30 on their list). Apart from the fact that our local sysadmin has cut off the CVS port with the firewall, I'm not real enthusiastic about snagging a CVS snapshot. So, here's a (no doubt crude, brutal) patch for the cc-mode distributed w/emacs 21.2 that seems to work for me. (Hmm. Dumb ol' Mozilla wants to wrap. I'll try attaching the diff.) John.