backward-match in color:text<%>
( -> (union natural-number? false?)
send a-color:text backward-match position cutoff)
position : natural-number?
cutoff : natural-number?
Skip all consecutive whitespaces and comments (using skip-whitespace)
immediately preceeding the position. If the token at this position is
a close, return the position of the matching open, or #f if
there is none. If the token was an open, return #f. For any
other token, return the start of that token.
Must only be called while the tokenizer is started.