Subject: Re: bug#66988: 30.0.50; treesit-forward-sexp not working properly in js-ts-mode and tsx-ts-mode

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 09:35:56 +0200

> Cc: Theodor Thornhill <[email-masked]>, [email-masked],
>  Loïc Lemaître <[email-masked]>
> From: Yuan Fu <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:41:20 -0800
> 
> > Alternatively, treesit-thing-settings could be interpreted to imply full matches, then the code using it should not only match against the regexps but also check that the entire string (type name) is matched.
> 
> I regret not doing this by default for treesit-indent-rules and traverse functions. Now it’s hard to change without creating confusion and breaking backward compatibility. I wonder if there are good way to smoothly transition to match full names by default…
> 
> Treesit-thing-settings can be changed to match full names, but only if we can change treesit-indent-rules and friends too. Otherwise it would be too confusing.

Is it feasible to have a variable that controls whether the full
matches are implied in these APIs?  Then we could start by making it
optional, and at some later time make it the default.