diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 56ea1b2c3f..0e32301d10 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Wed Jan 24 18:05:39 2007  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* misc/ruby-mode.el (ruby-font-lock-syntactic-keywords): fix
+	  regexp font-lock bug.  [ruby-talk:235758]
+
 Tue Jan 23 18:26:12 2007  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* lib/cgi.rb (CGI::QueryExtension::read_multipart): use == instead
diff --git a/misc/ruby-mode.el b/misc/ruby-mode.el
index cf827ebe5b..303a0b38c3 100644
--- a/misc/ruby-mode.el
+++ b/misc/ruby-mode.el
@@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@ balanced expression is found."
 	  ;; ?' ?" ?` are ascii codes
 	  ("\\(^\\|[^\\\\]\\)\\(\\\\\\\\\\)*[?$]\\([#\"'`]\\)" 3 (1 . nil))
 	  ;; regexps
-	  ("\\(^\\|[=(,~?:;]\\|\\(^\\|\\s \\)\\(if\\|elsif\\|unless\\|while\\|until\\|when\\|and\\|or\\|&&\\|||\\)\\|g?sub!?\\|scan\\|split!?\\)\\s *\\(/\\)[^/\n\\\\]*\\(\\\\.[^/\n\\\\]*\\)*\\(/\\)"
+	  ("\\(^\\|[=(,~?:;<>]\\|\\(^\\|\\s \\)\\(if\\|elsif\\|unless\\|while\\|until\\|when\\|and\\|or\\|&&\\|||\\)\\|g?sub!?\\|scan\\|split!?\\)\\s *\\(/\\)[^/\n\\\\]*\\(\\\\.[^/\n\\\\]*\\)*\\(/\\)"
 	   (4 (7 . ?/))
 	   (6 (7 . ?/)))
 	  ("^\\(=\\)begin\\(\\s \\|$\\)" 1 (7 . nil))