I&#x27;m fairly sure that Emacs&#x27;s go-mode, which doesn&#x27;t use a full-blown parser, won&#x27;t make the mistake of treating a paren inside a string as if it were outside either. Or if it did, that would be easy to fix.<p>Emacs has a generic lightweight parsing facility that can tell you if you&#x27;re inside a string, or a comment, or how to skip over a string, or a pair of matching parens&#x2F;braces&#x2F;brackets, and so on.