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

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:55:06 +0300

>> Perhaps nothing should be highlighted when syntax of the previous
>> character is `escape' `\'.
>
> IIUC the syntax of `\' is punctuation here, so there's no mismatch.
> Or am I missing something?

text-mode changes the syntax of `\' to punctuation.
But (skip-syntax-backward "/\\") like in `blink-matching-open'
in the patch I just sent will work correctly in text-mode
where the syntax of `\' is punctuation.