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

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 18:19:36 -0700 (PDT)

> 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?

Whether intentional or a bug, it seems to have been introduced
in Emacs 25 builds.  I see it there, and I don't see it in
Emacs 24.5 or older releases.