Subject: Re: bug#73978: 31.0.50; Text syntax applied on too many things in tsx-ts-mode
From: Yuan Fu <[email-masked]>
To: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>, Theodor Thornhill <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 21:47:41 -0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> On Dec 12, 2024, at 9:19 AM, Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> On 12/12/2024 06:56, Yuan Fu wrote:
>> How hard is it to add a new syntax for this case? Or is there some way to work around this? We can’t just not apply the string syntax, because if the “a” is a parenthesis, etc, it would mess up the parenthesis balancing after it.
> 
> Probably not very hard, but that seems like it'd affect the total set of syntax classes - which means adding it to the manual, etc.
> 
>> Maybe just give it a whitespace syntax?
> 
> Right, in such cases I applied the "whitespace" or "punctuation" syntax to the whole character span, like in https://github.com/dgutov/mmm-mode/blob/master/mmm-erb.el#L97

Thanks. I went with the whitespace trick and pushed my patch to master.

Yuan