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bibtex-mode: unescaped dollar sign in file field leads to wrong highlighting

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From: Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 50202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Yuu Yin <yuuyin <at> protonmail.com>
Subject: bug#50202: bibtex-mode: unescaped dollar sign in file field leads to wrong highlighting
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:19:26 -0500

On Fri, Aug 26 2022, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Another option is to mark $ as punctuation and then rely instead on
> `font-lock-keywords` to highlight something like "\\$[^$\n]+\\$".
> So $^2$ would still be highlighted in URLs but "foo$bar" wouldn't.

Thanks, that's a good compromise that should cover most use cases
without getting too complicated.

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