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

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
To: Yuan Fu <casouri <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Theodor Thornhill <theo <at> thornhill.no>, 73978 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73978: 31.0.50; Text syntax applied on too many things in tsx-ts-mode
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 19:19:19 +0200

On 12/12/2024 06:56, Yuan Fu wrote:
> 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.

Probably not very hard, but that seems like it'd affect the total set of 
syntax classes - which means adding it to the manual, etc.

> Maybe just give it a whitespace syntax?

Right, in such cases I applied the "whitespace" or "punctuation" syntax 
to the whole character span, like in 
https://github.com/dgutov/mmm-mode/blob/master/mmm-erb.el#L97

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