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31.0.50; Text syntax applied on too many things in tsx-ts-mode

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Message #35 received at 73978 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Yuan Fu <casouri <at> gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Theodor Thornhill <theo <at> thornhill.no>,
 73978 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#73978: 31.0.50; Text syntax applied on too many things in
 tsx-ts-mode
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:56:55 -0800

> On Dec 11, 2024, at 6:52 PM, Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev> wrote:
> 
> On 11/12/2024 06:52, Yuan Fu wrote:
>>> The problem is, that doesn’t work when there’s only one character. Take the snippet as an example:
>>> 
>>> <button>a</button>
>>> 
>>> You can’t put the string fence syntax on the “a”, because there isn’t a closing fence to close it.
>>> 
>>> Yuan
>> Circling back on this. I don’t think there’s a way to apply string syntax to a single character.
> 
> Indeed, sorry.
> 
> There needs to be a separate char as a "closing fence" like you say because it's treated as a part of the string. So it's 2 chars minimum.

How hard is it to add a new syntax for this case? Or is there some way to work around this? We can’t just not apply the string syntax, because if the “a” is a parenthesis, etc, it would mess up the parenthesis balancing after it.

Maybe just give it a whitespace syntax? 

Yuan

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