Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.83; Paren matching in AUCTeX

[Shreevatsa R]

Quoting Ralf Angeli who at 2007-03-01 19:44:05+0100 (Thu) wrote
> * Shreevatsa R. (2007-03-01) writes:
> 
> > Of course, there may be reasons why it is necessary/useful to keep the
> > \ as escaping, so it may not be the right thing for AUCTeX to do; it's
> > something I need to figure out for myself as a "user" kludge... er,
> > help? :-)
> 
> At least I won't publicly post code which screws the syntax table in
> such a way.  And I hope you (or anybody else for that matter) refrain
> from suggesting to other people to do something like this.
> 

OK, makes sense :-)

I'm sorry for suggesting this publicly.

But just for information, could you say what purpose the \ currently
serves (what would break without it, and why the "b" in "\begin" should
be considered an escaped character), and why you think \[ \] should not
be matched (the difficulty of its implementation aside)?

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Shreevatsa R