STRING with more than one word is not treated properly as ELEMENT with the motion commands

[nimaai]

(foo "bar" :baz)
 ^   ^     ^

starting at f jumps properly with <M-w>

(foo "bar qux" :baz)
 ^   ^    ^    ^

jumps inside the string with <M-w>

same behaviour with <M-b>

from my point of view this is an incorrect behaviour and it was not working like this in the past.

[bpstahlman]

@nimaai Thanks for reporting. I've confirmed the issue, and will post an update once I've had a chance to root-cause...

[nimaai]

and also (not sure if this is related) when pressing " inside the string at the end i would expect this plugin to just "jump over" in order to maintain the balanced closing ".

correct:

"foo bar"
       ^
 -->
 "foo bar"
          ^

but what happens is following:

"foo bar"
       ^
 -->
 "foo bar "" "
          ^

[bpstahlman]

@nimaai Interestingly, I've been able to reproduce the original issue only in the terminal. Have you tried this in gvim or only in a terminal?

[nimaai]

@bpstahlman i am using terminal neovim and gui neovide. same issues in both environments.

[bpstahlman]

@nimaai Which version of neovim? I see the original problem you reported in Vim 8.1, but not in Vim 8.2, so I want to be sure I'm using the same version of neovim.

[bpstahlman]

Also, can you tell me the version/commit of both vim-sexp and whatever lisp syntax file you're using? The latter may be significant because the only time I was able to reproduce the issue, it occurred because the string wasn't being highlighted properly, and vim-sexp uses the synstack to delineate the elements.

I don't see the issue on neovim 0.6.1. So far, I've seen it only on Vim 8.1.

[nimaai]

@bpstahlman

neovim v0.10.2
vim-sexp 14464d4
clojure.vim 128ccd4

same problem with vim-racket dcfb8c1.

[bpstahlman]

I'm not able to reproduce either issue with the versions you mentioned. The only other variable that seems potentially relevant is the terminal itself. I would expect this to matter more with Vim than Neovim. For instance, in my current terminal, Vim will treat a <M-w> like a simple w if I don't have a set <M-w>=^[w in my vimrc. IIUC, Neovim handles that sort of thing transparently, with no need for special termcap sets. But just in case, which terminal are you using?

[nimaai]

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