bug#59853: 30.0.50; tree-sitter modes have unexpected beginning-of-defun behavior

[Brian Leung]

Thanks for your response!

Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no> writes:

> > public abstract class Class {
> >     public static interface Interface {
> >         void someMethod();
> >
> >         void [o]therMethod();
> >     }
> > }
> >
> > If point is at the "o" in otherMethod, pressing C-M-a in 
> > java-ts-mode
> > moves point to the beginning of that line. However, in 
> > java-mode, point
> > moves to the beginning of Interface's declaration.
>
> I see.  To me this looks like java-ts-mode is "correct", in that 
> the
> next step "outwards" is to the method start itself.  The point 
> is in
> fact inside the method still, IIUC.  

I don't actually know Java, so my expectations/intuition for what 
is "right" may be off. But from what I've read about, interfaces 
should be used to group methods with empty bodies. Body-less forms 
don't particularly feel like defuns to me, which is why I bring 
this up. Additionally, interactively using narrow-to-defun in 
java-ts-mode when point is inside the interface body produces 
unusual results:

> public abstract class Class {
>     public static interface Interface {
>         void someMethod();
> * *
>         void otherMethod();
>     *}*
> }

If you narrow-to-defun with point inside the interface body and 
not touching either brace (such as between the two methods), you 
won't be able to capture the entire interface, and instead get 
just a single-line method. Meanwhile, if point touches the right 
brace, then narrow-to-defun yields

>         void otherMethod();
>     }
> }

when capturing the entire interface might make more sense.

> > def outer():
> >     def inner(i):
> >         return i
> >
> >     [r]eturn 42
> >
> > If point is at the "r" in the outer return statement, pressing 
> > C-M-a in
> > python-ts-mode moves point to the beginning of the line where 
> > the
> > function "inner" is declared. However, in python-mode, point 
> > moves to
> > the beginning of the line where "outer" is declared.
>
> In this case I think python-mode is correct, becase the 'inner' 
> function
> is a sibling to the return statement, and it would make sense to 
> go
> directly to outer.

Yeah, I agree here.