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30.0.50; Unusual interpretation of "S-expressions" in c-ts-mode

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From: Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
To: Daniel Martín via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss
 army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 62238 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, philipk <at> posteo.net, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 theo <at> thornhill.no, casouri <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#62238: 30.0.50; Unusual interpretation of "S-expressions"
 in c-ts-mode
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2023 17:29:14 +0100

Daniel Martín via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:

>
> Note that basing C-M-x on syntax tables (that is, traditional
> forward-sexp) does not completely exclude the use of Tree-sitter, AFAIU.
> Here's my thought process: To do its job, C-M-x needs to know about some
> code structures such as symbol constituents, strings, comments, and
> parenthetical groups.  If in some language or future version of C the
> syntax is complex enough that getting the syntax class of a character
> requires proper parsing, the Tree-sitter major modes can augment the
> syntax table to make C-M-x work correctly.  See
> c-ts-mode--syntax-propertize for an example of how Tree-sitter can
> augment a buffer's syntax table, if needed.

Typo: Where I said C-M-x, I meant C-M-f or C-M-b.

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