Word boundaries in- and outside symbol highlight transient state don't agree

[jFransham]

Description

The word boundaries used by */# in- and outside symbol highlight transient state don't agree.

Reproduction guide 🪲

• Start Emacs
• Open *scratch* buffer
• Type:

  *test
  test
  test
  

• Hover over the test on the second line and press * or #
• Press n or N a few times
• Press <ESC> to leave symbol highlight transient state
• Press n or N a few times

Observed behaviour: 👀 💔
In the transient state, only the tests on the second and third lines are
jumped between, but outside the test on all three lines are detected.

Expected behaviour: ❤️ 😄
The same behaviour would happen in both (I'd say that the behaviour outside the
transient state is more intuitive).

System Info 💻

• OS: gnu/linux
• Emacs: 25.1.1
• Spacemacs: 0.200.5
• Spacemacs branch: master (rev. 664ba6a)
• Graphic display: t
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: ivy
• Layers:

(javascript react html php csv lua haskell python yaml shell-scripts rust ivy auto-completion emacs-lisp git markdown)

• System configuration features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11

Backtrace 🐾

N/A

[duianto]

Confirmed in the develop branch as well:

System Info 💻

• OS: windows-nt
• Emacs: 25.1.1
• Spacemacs: 0.200.7
• Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. 3072e727)
• Graphic display: t
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

((markdown :variables markdown-live-preview-engine 'vmd)
 auto-completion chrome emacs-lisp git helm html markdown org)

• System configuration features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND DBUS NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS

[Miciah]

This looks like a duplicate of #2710.

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