Unable To Multiline Comment `typescriptreact` Through Comment.nvim about nvim-ts-context-commentstring

[DennisTheMenace780]

Alright so this sucked to figure out, but I figured it out for anyone who comes across this.

Tl;DR the reason I could not get this plugin to work was because my cursor was not on an appropriate Tree Sitter node.

It felt like the plugin was just not hitting the appropriate nodes no matter what I tried, so I installed NvimTreesitter Playground to actually see what was happening behind the scenes. My problem was that I had my cursor at the start of whitespace but on the same line a JSX Element would be, and I thought that would allow me to just comment out what I wanted.

What needed to happen is that the cursor must be placed, literally, on the JSX tag or element for the commenting to work. Once I discovered that, everything worked beautifully.

[JoosepAlviste]

Hey @DennisTheMenace780! This issue seems a bit odd since this plugin should definitely handle the case where your cursor is not exactly on the JSX node. For example, in this case:

(
  <div>
    <h1>Hello</h1>
^ -- cursor
  </div>
)

The comment character should be calculated based on the first non-whitespace character in the line:

(
  <div>
    <h1>Hello</h1>
    ^ -- this position is used to calculate the commentstring
  </div>
)

This should result in the {/* %s */} commentstring.

Could you maybe give a specific example of an unexpected use case?