bug#74386: Tree-sitter javascript indentation

[Yuan Fu]

> On Dec 1, 2024, at 2:33 PM, Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> wrote:
> 
> On 01/12/2024 21:10, Yuan Fu wrote:
>> Ah, I see. That’s a good point, and I definitely prefer the indentation 
>> result of parent-bol here. The one produced by standalone-parent is just 
>> wrong. What we can do is make standalone-parent ignore “.” when checking for 
>> “standaloneness”. And perhaps make it configurable so it’s enabled only for 
>> modes that this waiver makes sense (C-like languages excluding C and C++).
> 
> Maybe not by hardcoding this in inside the 'standalone-parent' matcher, but 
> writing this in the indentation rules? Different languages might have 
> differing ASTs for such construct.
> 
> Or if you meant to do a text search, a period might start a method call, but 
> it could also continue a "range" literal in some other language, or some 
> struct initializer (I think?) in C/C++. Also, some languages allow (and style 
> guides suggest) to have the previous at the end of the line, then followed by 
> newline and then the method name.

Not hard-coded, but customizable, like this:

Yuan

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