Re: confusion over undocumented syntax-table features, font-lock and syntax-tables

[Matt Swift]

>> "L" == Luc wrote:

    L> I just was thinking about too many things at the same time and
    L> forgot about the exact meaning of char-syntax for a moment. 
[...]
    L> I do not believe that there are any bugs related to the things
    L> discussed in this thread.  Matthew just forgot about text
    L> properties and I just totally got confused for a while.

Yes, I did not even realize that a text property could override the
syntax table.  

One question remains, which may yet be bug of some kind:

What is the meaning of assigning a matching char to chars in syntax
class comment-starter (`<') or string-quote (`"')?  Several packages,
including sh-script.el, make such an assignment, but I do not see that
the meaning of matching chars is documented except for syntax classes
open-parenthesis and close-parenthesis.