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

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From: Yuan Fu <casouri <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Theodor Thornhill <theo <at> thornhill.no>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Mickey Petersen <mickey <at> masteringemacs.org>, 73404 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: bug#73404: 30.0.50; [forward/kill/etc]-sexp commands do not behave as expected in tree-sitter modes
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:27:29 -0800

> On Dec 11, 2024, at 7:12 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Ah, this matches my idea of defining sexp in other languages as “repeatable
>> construct/list-like construct”.  We went with “every syntactic construct” at
>> the time, which I didn’t object to, but I’m definitely happier with the
>> repeatable construct approach. Including Stefan and Theo since they were
>> part of the original sexp navigation discussion.
> 
> FWIW, we have both `forward-list` and `forward-list` and the new
> behavior you suggest sounds closer to the historical behavior of
> `forward-list` than `forward-sexp`.
> 
> 
>        Stefan
> 

Actually, what’s the difference between forward-list and forward-sexp? I always thought they are the same at least for Lisp.

Yuan

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