Subject: Re: bug#9461: 24.0.50; Weird behaviour in "show-parent-mode"

From: Dani Moncayo <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 22:53:15 +0200

>> Why is Emacs trying to match the first "\" with the last ")"?
>
> Because that's where scan-sexps moves to.

The question is: does that make sense?

To put it more clear: write "abc\(def\)".  Just after typing the ")",
Emacs tries to match that ")" with the "a".  That doesn't make much
sense, no?

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Dani Moncayo