On March 22, 2023 20:00:23 Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> wrote:

>> On Mar 22, 2023, at 1:49 PM, Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> wrote:
>>
>> Is there a general-purpose through which we can avoid line indentation
>> oscillating as the user types when the AST is temporarily invalid,
>> e.g. after '(' or '{'? I'm checking out the C++ tree-sitter mode, and
>> one of the more disconcerting things is the current line's indentation
>> changing rapidly as I type. Is it feasible to create ERROR recovery
>> indentation rules for every conceivable situation?
>
> Yes, but in reality, I think all we need is a couple special case for the 
> unmatched ( and {’s. Can you think of other cases of blinking indentations?
>
> Yuan

But TS reacts to missing closing brackets by clarifying the whole nearby 
expression as ERROR. It's not, as would be more useful, saying "here's a 
stray (, and everything else is normal and parsed as if that ( were absent"