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Joe Corneli wrote:
> Well, the behavior in latex-mode is pretty lame. (For \{ and \} as
> well as the aforementioned forms.)  This is unfortunate, because
> these "escaped paretheses" symbols are used a lot in latex, and one
> would often like to find where e.g. a set begins by using paren
> matching.
> 

I tried to edit a Mathematica notebook. It was opened in 
'fundamental-mode'. I changed to 'text-mode', where '\' does not mean 
'escape'.