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From: Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: New paren matching feature request
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    I agree and I also think that Alin's right in that the best way to do it
    is via parse-partial-sexp (suitably enhanced if/as needed).
    Font-lock-mode already uses parse-partial-sexp to do
    comment&string highlighting.

So the idea would be to modify the syntactic highlighting code?