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

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Message #34 received at 50202-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 50202-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Yuu Yin <yuuyin <at> protonmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#50202: bibtex-mode: unescaped dollar sign in file field
 leads to wrong highlighting
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 23:49:43 -0600

On Mon, Aug 29 2022, Roland Winkler wrote:
> 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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