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25.1.50; Surprising highlighting of "\[\]" in emacs-lisp-mode

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From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, 24173 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24173: 25.1.50; Surprising highlighting of "\[\]" in
 emacs-lisp-mode
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 21:24:24 -0400

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On 2016-08-06 21:19, Drew Adams wrote:
>> 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.

Thanks for testing!

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