bug#73978: 31.0.50; Text syntax applied on too many things in tsx-ts-mode

[Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>]

On January 5, 2025 6:55:11 AM EST, "Theodor Thornhill via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
>Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> On Dec 12, 2024, at 9:19 AM, Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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
>>
>> Thanks. I went with the whitespace trick and pushed my patch to master.
>>
>> Yuan
>
>FWIW, I believe this is a regression caused by later versions of the
>treesit grammar. What is talked about here was explicitly a goal for me
>to handle at least better than what it appears it has been for some
>time. IIRC they changed what nodes were applied as the jsx nodes quite
>dramatically some time ago. I'm not surprised there are issues after
>that, as most wasn't backward compatible

Hrm.