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

[Yuan Fu]

> On Nov 24, 2024, at 5:27 PM, Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Nov 24, 2024, at 5:45 AM, Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> wrote:
>> 
>> On 24/11/2024 09:47, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>> Hey sorry, I haven’t applied the patch. Actually, I want to ask you a 
>>>> question before I do: is there a way to mark a single character in buffer 
>>>> in string syntax? The only way I’m aware of is to mark string delimiter 
>>>> syntax to the start and end of the string, but that doesn’t work for a 
>>>> single character.
>>>> 
>>>> Take the following snippet as an example:
>>>> 
>>>> <button>a<button>
>>>> 
>>>> I want to apply string syntax to “a”.
>>>> 
>>>> If there’s no such way, I guess just not applying the string syntax in 
>>>> such case is also an option.
>>> There's a syntax-table text property, see the node "Syntax Properties"
>>> in the ELisp manual.  Would that do the job?
>> 
>> In particular, the "generic string" syntax property, this one
>> 
>> (string-to-syntax "|")
>> 
>> You put it on the first and the last chars of a "generic string”.
> 
> The problem is, that doesn’t work when there’s only one character. Take the 
> snippet as an example:
> 
> <button>a</button>
> 
> You can’t put the string fence syntax on the “a”, because there isn’t a 
> closing fence to close it.
> 
> Yuan

Circling back on this. I don’t think there’s a way to apply string syntax to a 
single character.

Yuan