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

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Message #247 received at 73404 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: mickey <at> masteringemacs.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 Theodor Thornhill <theo <at> thornhill.no>, casouri <at> gmail.com,
 73404 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#73404: 30.0.50; [forward/kill/etc]-sexp commands do not
 behave as expected in tree-sitter modes
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 20:05:40 +0200

> But indeed for list operations in indentation-based languages like
> Haskell/Python/Coffeescript/YAML, we're faced again with the fact that
> a closing LF can close several nested lists, so when going backward
> there is some amount of ambiguity (and I'd argue that it's preferable
> (and closer to the historical behavior) to choose to jump less far,
> e.g. so that `C-M-n C-M-p` never moves backward).

I had an idea to keep the currently navigated level in an
internal variable, so `C-M-n C-M-p` will always return back.
But this doesn't look reliable.

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