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beginning-of-defun and friends still wrong in typescript-ts-mode

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From: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
To: Yuan Fu <casouri <at> gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 78703 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#78703: beginning-of-defun and friends still wrong in typescript-ts-mode
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:57:36 -0700

On June 6, 2025 12:23:23 AM PDT, Yuan Fu <casouri <at> gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Jun 6, 2025, at 12:01 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
>>> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:40:03 -0700
>>> 
>>> Right now, C-M-a runs treesit-beginning-of-defun which goes to the
>>> start of the previous defun in buffer text, not the enclosing defun.
>>> 
>>> If we have this program:
>>> 
>>>    1 function foo() {
>>>    2   function bar() {
>>>    3     return 5
>>>    4   }
>>>    5   return 7
>>>    6 }
>>> 
>>> 
>>> and point is on line 5, then if we hit C-M-a, point goes to line 2, not
>>> line 1.  In every single situation, when I use beginning-of-defun, I
>>> intend to go to the start of my enclosing defun not the one that happens
>>> to be previous in buffer linearization.
>> 
>> I think you want to set treesit-defun-tactic to 'top-level’.
>
>Yes. Most likely top-level is what you want. 
>
>Yuan
>
>

I don't think that's right either --- if I'm on line 3, I should go to line 2, not 1. Go to beginning of defun should mean go to the beginning of *my* defun. That's the traditional behavior from cc-mode, js-mode, etc. and the one that makes most sense. I can see top-level being an option, but I don't think the way nested works right now is useful and it's confusing and inconsistent as a default.

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