diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d2f82746..f3c8d087 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2010-08-04 Peter <exodus@savannah>
+	* doc/syntax/tex.nanorc: No longer highlight escaped comments
+
 2010-06-20 Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>
 	* New rc file option allow_insecure_backup, allows the previous security
 	  fixes for backup files to be overridden if you're really positive
diff --git a/doc/syntax/tex.nanorc b/doc/syntax/tex.nanorc
index fff8dd0d..23ca3a44 100644
--- a/doc/syntax/tex.nanorc
+++ b/doc/syntax/tex.nanorc
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 syntax "tex" "\.tex$"
 icolor green "\\.|\\[A-Z]*"
 color magenta "[{}]"
-color blue "%.*"
+color blue "(^|[^\])%.*"