bug#7219: Parentheses matching cursor blink in wrong place

[Eric Mullen]

I was editting a LaTeX file, doing homework for a programming languages
class, when I typed in this line:

\textbf{First($<exp>$) = $\{ (, a \}$ }

When I put the final curly brace on, my cursor showed me the position
of the opening brace that I closed, like it usually does. However, it
snapped to the wrong place, the third $ in the line (and not the opening
curly brace right after the \textbf). The problem persists in this
bug reporting buffer, which does not have LaTeX syntax highlighting.

I tried to do this from within emacs, but when I tried to send this, it gave
me this message:
Sending...failed with exit value 1

Thus I am mailing it.

Eric Mullen
Harvey Mudd College '12
Computer Science
Avid Emacs User

In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
 of 2010-03-29 on yellow, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  '--build=x86_64-linux-gnu'
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'--with-x=no' 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu'
'host_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g'
'CPPFLAGS=''

Important settings:
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Major mode: LaTeX

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Recent input:
x p > 4 DEL $ ) SPC w o u l d SPC b e DEL DEL DEL DEL
DEL DEL DEL DEL c a n SPC b e SPC c a l c u l a t e
d SPC t w o SPC d i f f e r e n t SPC w a y s , SPC
s i n c e RET TAB $ < e x p > $ SPC c a n SPC g o SPC
t o SPC d o SPC DEL DEL DEL t o DEL w o SPC d i f f
e r e n t SPC t h i n g s . SPC E i t h e r SPC o f
SPC t h s e SPC DEL DEL DEL e s e SPC a r e SPC p r
e t t y RET TAB i m DEL DEL s i m p l e SPC t o SPC
c a l c u l a t e SPC f i r DEL DEL DEL F i r s t SPC
f o DEL DEL o f , SPC s o SPC F i r s t ( $ < DEL DEL
DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL : \ \ RET TAB $ DEL f DEL
F i r s t DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL \ t e x t b f { F i r
s t ( $ < e x p > $ ) SPC = SPC \ DEL $ \ { SPC ( ,
SPC a SPC \ } $ } DEL SPC } DEL DEL SPC } ESC x r e
p o r t - e m a c s SPC b u TAB RET

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