"Closest surrounding pair (tree-sitter)" not working anymore in git context

[karthago1]

Summary

Since we have git highlighting, I think this bug is introduced

Just create a file named "COMMIT_EDITMSG" and paste the following text

changelog:
383aa7b (HEAD -> hich/ethernet) commit 1
e10a36a commit 2

go inside the parentheses and press "mam" in normal mode. result: No thing is selected.

Repeat the same steps in a new buffer and the selection will be successful

here is a video
https://asciinema.org/a/PpvQrhXxDVg7EihKWGZAfqRla

Reproduction Steps

No response

Helix log

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Platform

Linux

Terminal Emulator

kitty

Installation Method

source

Helix Version

24.03-147-g752ed8eb

[woojiq]

I'm not sure if this is a bug. tree-sitter for git does not define a node for pairs (like markdown tree-sitter). Type :tree-sitter-subtree. All tree-sitter motions don't work for pairs either (I mean mm, A-o, etc). Use ma(.

[pascalkuthe]

Yeah this behaves as expected. Altough for some TS grammars (basically anything that is not a proper language) we may want to switch back to plaintext (maybe with a per language setting) but it could also just be fine to require the use of the more explicit plaintext bindings (mi()

[karthago1]

the result of :tree-sitter-subtree is

(message
     (commit))

mi( and ma( work fine.

we may want to switch back to plaintext (maybe with a per language setting)

thank you for the tip. I just disabled the the highlighting by editing languages.toml

[[language]]
name = "git-commit"
file-types = []

now I have the same behavior as the released version. (it looks not as nice as the highlighted version, but more functional)

should I close this issue. since it is not a bug in helix itself, but in the tree sitter definition of git?