1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/font-lock.el b/lisp/font-lock.el
index bfd5b7cce69..bdf31881cc4 100644
--- a/lisp/font-lock.el
+++ b/lisp/font-lock.el
@@ -1295,15 +1295,15 @@ START should be at the beginning of a line."
     ;; Find each interesting place between here and `end'.
     (while
         (progn
-          (setq state (parse-partial-sexp (point) end nil nil state
-                                          'syntax-table))
           (when (or (nth 3 state) (nth 4 state))
             (setq face (funcall font-lock-syntactic-face-function state))
             (setq beg (max (nth 8 state) start))
             (setq state (parse-partial-sexp (point) end nil nil state
                                             'syntax-table))
             (when face (put-text-property beg (point) 'face face)))
-          (< (point) end)))))
+          (< (point) end))
+      (setq state (parse-partial-sexp (point) end nil nil state
+                                      'syntax-table)))))
 
 ;;; End of Syntactic fontification functions.