Re: How to make `forward-sexp` handle other balanced character-pairs such as < and > or << and >> in erlang-mode or others?

[Pierre Rouleau]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 5:14 PM Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Adding the characters to the syntax table is the canonical answer.
> Maybe erlang-mode sets forward-sexp-function? This is typically done
> to enhance the sexp movement beyond simple parentheses, for instance
> for modes using SMIE.
>
> If you (setq forward-sexp-function nil), does forward-sexp do what you
> want?
>
>
In erlang-mode forward-sexp-function is already nil and forward-sexp does
not
deal with ?< and ?> as a matching pair then.
I tried to modify the syntax table but that did not work either.
At the moment I'm trying to write a function that I will provide as the
forward-sexp-function to do the job.

Really I would think would have been to modify the syntax table to get
scan-sexps to
do the job.  Perhaps something inside erlang.el /erlang-mode gets in the
way,
but I have not fully studied its code