diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 019881fda1e..813194bc04b 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2001-01-19  Gerd Moellmann  <gerd@gnu.org>
 
+	* textmodes/texinfo.el (texinfo-mode): Use backward-paragraph
+	as font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function in font-lock-defaults.
+
 	* jit-lock.el (jit-lock-fontify-now): Don't bind 
 	font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function to nil.
 
diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/texinfo.el b/lisp/textmodes/texinfo.el
index 897339750a1..1dcae0b1d40 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/texinfo.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/texinfo.el
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ value of `texinfo-mode-hook'."
   (setq imenu-case-fold-search nil)
   (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults)
   (setq font-lock-defaults
-	'(texinfo-font-lock-keywords nil nil nil nil
+	'(texinfo-font-lock-keywords nil nil nil backward-paragraph
 				     (font-lock-syntactic-keywords
 				      . texinfo-font-lock-syntactic-keywords)))
   (set (make-local-variable 'parse-sexp-lookup-properties) t)