Backslash in snippet

[Champitoad]

Hi,

I am trying to create a custom snippet for LaTeX macros that looks like this:

"LaTeX macro": {
    "label": "LaTeX macro",
    "description": "Surround with a LaTeX macro",
    "snippet": "\\$1{$TM_SELECTED_TEXT}$0",
    "languageIds": [
        "latex"
    ]
},

But if I apply it to the selection foobar it generates $1{foobar}, instead of \{foobar} with the cursor located next to the backslash. If I remove the escaped backslash \\ in the snippet I get correct behavior for the cursor.

I infer that there is some issue handling either backslashes or escaped characters?