In tex-mode, latex-forward-sexp does not correctly handle parentheses like this \[ \]. In particular, it says the expression is not balanced when it is. Steps to reproduce the bug: 1. Start with emacs -Q (with -nw or without doesn't make a difference) 2. Open any .tex file (I attached test.tex which I used). 3. Navigate to any LaTeX equation delimited by \[ and \], like this: \[ 1 + 1 = 2 \] 4. Put the cursor on the first [ in the line: 5. Call latex-forward-sexp That's it. On test.tex, the error I get is: Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses", 126, 157 Note that if the cursor is on the backslash, rather than [, then there is no error. In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.24, cairo version 1.16.0) System Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS Configured using: 'configure CONFIG_SHELL=/gnu/store/pwcp239kjf7lnj5i4lkdzcfcxwcfyk72-bash-minimal-5.0.16/bin/bash SHELL=/gnu/store/pwcp239kjf7lnj5i4lkdzcfcxwcfyk72-bash-minimal-5.0.16/bin/bash --prefix=/gnu/store/xq1linh33h7icndhqwsxky0x6fmjqn11-emacs-pgtk-native-comp-28.0.50-194.1c0a7c3 --enable-fast-install --with-native-compilation --with-pgtk --with-xwidgets --with-modules --with-cairo --disable-build-details' Configured features: ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LIBOTF LIBSELINUX LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PGTK PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS XIM XWIDGETS GTK3 ZLIB Important settings: value of $EMACSLOADPATH: /home/robo/.guix-profile/share/emacs/site-lisp:/home/robo/.guix-profile/share/emacs/site-lisp:/gnu/store/xq1linh33h7icndhqwsxky0x6fmjqn11-emacs-pgtk-native-comp-28.0.50-194.1c0a7c3/share/emacs/28.0.50/lisp value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: LaTeX Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core eieio-loaddefs password-cache json map time-date subr-x seq mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils vc-git diff-mode easy-mmode vc-dispatcher tex-mode compile text-property-search shell pcomplete comint ansi-color ring latexenc term/xterm xterm byte-opt bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl-macs cl-loaddefs cl-lib pcase gv jka-compr iso-transl tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/pgtk-win pgtk-win term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray cl-preloaded nadvice button loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads xwidget-internal dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit pgtk multi-tty make-network-process native-compile emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 97956 9073) (symbols 48 8246 0) (strings 32 24556 2414) (string-bytes 1 872307) (vectors 16 13770) (vector-slots 8 274177 6530) (floats 8 37 69) (intervals 56 410 0) (buffers 992 12))