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>>>>> "David" == David C Sterratt <david.c.sterratt@ed.ac.uk> writes:
> in gnu emacs as opposed to simple.el in xemacs.  But it's not clear
> from these files how the variables comment-start &c set up the
> font-locking.

It's not clear simply because it's not the case.
Font-lock uses syntax-tables rather than comment-start and comment-end.

Your problem is that XEmacs uses different settings for
"two-char comment-markers of style b":

>                               (?\n . "> b")
>                               (?/ . ". 1456")
>                               (?* . ". 23")

The `56' above is XEmacs specific.  In Emacs, you'd do
use (?/ . ". 124b") instead.  I think the Emacs syntax is accepted
by XEmacs as well.


        Stefan