Subject: bug#24173: 25.1.50; Surprising highlighting of "\[\]" in emacs-lisp-mode

From: Clément Pit--Claudel <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 20:51:02 -0400

Hey bug-gnu-emacs,

In Emacs Lisp mode, the last two backslashes in the string "\\[\\]" are highlighted with (font-lock-constant-face font-lock-string-face). Is this expected?

Clément.

In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.7 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9)
 of 2016-07-20 built on clem-w50-mint
Repository revision: a1a0c208e3e895a6ea0942e8e5c4077faf12c7ad
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11803000
System Description:	Linux Mint 18 Sarah