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30.0.50; Add forward-sentence with tree sitter support

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From: Theodor Thornhill <theo <at> thornhill.no>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, juri <at> linkov.net, casouri <at> gmail.com, 60623 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mardani29 <at> yahoo.es
Subject: bug#60623: 30.0.50; Add forward-sentence with tree sitter support
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 21:22:56 +0100

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>>> +* Moving by Sentences:: Commands to move over certain definitions in code.
>>>                                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> I'd use "code units" or "units of code" here.
>>
>> Done.
>>
>>>
>>> Also, should we perhaps name the section "Moving by Statements"? or
>>> would it be too inaccurate?
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure.  I think that maybe because the commands involved, and the
>> ones that implicitly will be impacted, such as kill-sentence and friends
>> it is best to stay with Sentences?  But a statement is the better term
>> wrt programming languages of course.  I hold no strong opinions here.
>
> FWIW, while it may correspond to "statements" for some languages, it
> will correspond to other things in other languages (e.g. those that
> don't have a notion of "statement"), so it's probably best to stick to
> "sentence" here and then in the doc explain how that notion is expected
> to be mapped to notions that make sense for a given language.
>
>
>         Stefan


Yeah, that makes sense.

Theo

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