Re: show-paren-mode indicates mismatch for escaped parentheses

[Richard M. Stallman]

    The current situation with escape characters is still not clear for me.
    I don't understand why `scan_lists' can't match escaped parens in strings
    in emacs-lisp mode?  In strings "(" and "\(" have exactly the same meaning.
    So why to not treat them equally?

scan_lists is not meant solely for Lisp mode,
and it is meant primarily to operate on text not inside strings.
So it is a mistake to propose a design based on the case
of text inside Lisp strings.

If you find a way to improve the behavior inside Lisp strings without
altering the behavior in other cases, that we could entertain.