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@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ Emacs with Leim.
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 * Changes in Emacs 21.3
 
+** font-lock: in modes like C and Lisp where the fontification assumes that
+an open-paren in column 0 is always outside of any string or comment,
+font-lock now highlights any such open-paren-in-column-zero in bold-red
+if it is inside a string or a comment, to indicate that it can cause
+trouble with fontification and/or indentation.
+
 +++
 ** There's a new face `minibuffer-prompt'.
 Emacs adds this face to the list of text properties stored in the