Re: Parens matching does match wrong parentheses

[Richard Stallman]

    This problem is not restricted to rtf-code, elisp also suffers from it. 
    Try auto-indenting the following piece of elisp:
    (defvar generic-rtf-mode-syntax-table
       (let ((table (make-syntax-table)))
         (modify-syntax-entry ?( "." table)
         (modify-syntax-entry ?) "." table)
         (modify-syntax-entry ?[ "." table)
         (modify-syntax-entry ?] "." table)
         table))

To avoid the problem, you should write that as follows:

    This problem is not restricted to rtf-code, elisp also suffers from it. 
    Try auto-indenting the following piece of elisp:
    (defvar generic-rtf-mode-syntax-table
       (let ((table (make-syntax-table)))
         (modify-syntax-entry ?/( "." table)
         (modify-syntax-entry ?/) "." table)
         (modify-syntax-entry ?/[ "." table)
         (modify-syntax-entry ?/] "." table)
         table))

For hand-editing of RTF, you would want to use a modified syntax
table.  Is that a common enough activity that we would want to
have an RTF mode to do this?  I would have guess not.