Subject: bug#73404: 30.0.50; [forward/kill/etc]-sexp commands do not behave as expected in tree-sitter modes

From: Yuan Fu <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 00:56:41 -0800

> On Jan 5, 2025, at 6:40 AM, Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
>> I admit that hard-coding one symbol is not the right thing to do.
>> So here is a better patch that checks for the symbol property:
> 
> That's better but I still wonder why we don't want to use a keyword.
> 
> 
>        Stefan
> 

My impression is that Elisp has “traditionally” used symbols? Like symbol properties, text properties, thing-at-point, etc. Keywords are really only seen in plists, face attributes, and keyword arguments, all of which involves a key-value relationship.

Yuan