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26.2; SMIE does not request forward tokens when point is at point-max

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Sam Halliday <sam.halliday <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 36432 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36432: 26.2;
 SMIE does not request forward tokens when point is at point-max
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 15:23:11 +0300

> From: Sam Halliday <sam.halliday <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 13:14:01 +0100
> 
> SMIE (via a `indent-for-tab-command') does not request forward tokens
> from the lexer when point is at `point-max'.
> 
> This might sound like a strange bug report: why should smie expect
> there to be any tokens when it is already at point-max? The answer is:
> virtual tokens. For example, Haskell may have many closing curly
> brackets that live at the end of the buffer.

??? There can be noting at point-max, as that position is beyond the
last buffer position.  Did you mean the position just before that?  Or
am I missing something here?

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