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

[Dmitry Gutov]

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".