Matching escaped bracket in Wolfram-mode

[johngarg]

In Wolfram Mathematica code, special symbols (such as the Greek letters) are encoded as \[kappa]. The rainbow-delimiters package correctly identifies the ending ] as a closing bracket; however, as the first one is 'escaped' it fails to match the open bracket. This causes rainbow-delimiters to highlight nearly all unbalanced brace/brackets.

Short of disabling rainbow-delimiters entirely, is it possible to get rainbow-delimiters to ignore the matching brackets in this case? For example, get it to ignore any \[...] pattern?

[Fanael]

is it possible to get rainbow-delimiters to ignore the matching brackets in this case? For example, get it to ignore any \[...] pattern?

Yes. It requires, however, one of the following:

1. Cooperation from the major mode, in the form of making it so the closing bracket is not seen by parse-partial-sexp as one, for example, by using syntax-table text properties. This is the best way, and will make all other code relying on parse-partial-sexp and similar functions just work.
2. A workaround that sets the relevant text properties while not being a part of the major mode, but behaves more or less the same as if it were. Should be easy to write, but don't expect it to be merged into rainbow-delimiters: I realized long ago that adding hacks that work around major mode issues is a fool's errand. There's just too many ways a major mode can be subtly broken.
3. If you want it to be done entirely within rainbow-delimiters, you can help with Ignore blacklisted delimiters altogether. #1. Beware: dragons abound.

[ghost]

Hi I'm trying to figure out how to make rainbow-delimiters work for latex-mode (not auctex), where braces have to be escaped.

For example:

P(\{a, b\}) = \{ \{\}, \{a\}, \{b\}, \{a, b\} \}

You can imagine when writing even more complicated sets it can get gnarly.

If you could point me towards learning more about syntax-table and such it would be a huge help.