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

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Message #8 received at 50202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Yuu Yin <yuuyin <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 50202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#50202: bibtex-mode: unescaped dollar sign in file field
 leads to wrong highlighting
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 16:33:00 +0200

Yuu Yin <yuuyin <at> protonmail.com> writes:

> - bibtex-mode enabled,
> - and a BibTeX entry which has as value for file field a path that has dollar sign ~
> /path/to/file $ name.ext~
>
> bibtex-mode doesn't recognizes that the dollar sign is verbatim for the file field,
> leading to wrong highlighting.

This behaviour is still present in Emacs 29.  Perhaps Roland has some
comments; added to the CCs.

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