GNU bug report logs - #24173
25.1.50; Surprising highlighting of "\[\]" in emacs-lisp-mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com>

Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 00:52:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Found in version 25.1.50

Done: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com>
Cc: 24173 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24173: 25.1.50; Surprising highlighting of "\[\]" in emacs-lisp-mode
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2016 11:11:12 +0200

Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com> writes:

> 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?

         ;; Words inside \\[] tend to be for `substitute-command-keys'.
         (,(concat "\\\\\\\\\\[\\(" lisp-mode-symbol-regexp "\\)\\]")

Andreas.

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