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29.1.50; js-ts-mode: regex pattern can cause incorrect parenthesis matching

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From: Augustin Chéneau (BTuin) <btuin <at> mailo.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
Cc: 65470 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65470: 29.1.50; js-ts-mode: regex pattern can cause incorrect
 parenthesis matching
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 09:17:07 +0200

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Le 25/08/2023 à 02:18, Dmitry Gutov a écrit :
> On 24/08/2023 22:47, Theodor Thornhill wrote:
>> Eli Zaretskii<eliz <at> gnu.org>  writes:
>>
>>>> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2023 16:23:13 +0300
>>>> From: Dmitry Gutov<dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
>>>>
>>>> On 23/08/2023 12:05, Augustin Chéneau (BTuin) wrote:
>>>>> With the mode js-ts-mode, matching tokens (such as '()', '[]') can be
>>>>> incorrectly paired by `show-paren-mode`. This is trivially 
>>>>> reproducible
>>>>> with this simple example:
>>>>>
>>>>> (/foobar)/)
>>>>>
>>>>> The first parenthesis is matched with the second one, which is 
>>>>> inside a
>>>>> regular expression pattern (between slashes), and the last one is not
>>>>> paired.
>>>>>
>>>>> The behavior should be the same as for string, the content of the 
>>>>> regex
>>>>> pattern should have no influence on the structure of the code. The 
>>>>> first
>>>>> parenthesis should match with the third one. Here, the first 
>>>>> parenthesis
>>>>> is matched with the last one:
>>>>>
>>>>> ("foobar)")
>>>>>
>>>>> js-mode behaves correctly in both cases.
>>>> Sounds like js-ts-mode also needs a syntax-propertize-function, similar
>>>> to c-ts-mode, ruby-ts-mode and rust-ts-mode.
>>>>
>>>> Others (typescript-ts-mode?) probably need it as well, at least modes
>>>> for those languages that have dedicated regexp or heredoc syntax.
>>> Would someone please add syntax-propertize-function in modes that need
>>> it?  I think this should be done on the emacs-29 branch.
>>>
>>> TIA
>> I'll add it to my list, but if someone will grab it that's fine, as I'm
>> a little short on time the next couple of weeks 🙁
> 
> This one seems to work for js-ts-mode.
> 
> typescript is a bit more fiddly (two separate modes, one with jsx and 
> one without), but should be able to follow the similar pattern.

Thanks for the patch, but I still have some issues. I believe that the
START and END arguments of `put-text-property` are off by one. The
attached modified patch seems to work better.

[js-ts--syntax-propertize-v2.diff (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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