evil-surround: change / delete delimiters fails

[practicalli-johnny]

Description

Evil change / delete surround no longer working, reporting the following error in the buffer, SPC b m

evil-motion-range: No surrounding delimiters found

Assumption: a change in https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil-surround/ occurred on or after 27th June 2023, as the package evil-surround-20230627.2052 functions correctly. This package contains the evil-surround.el with a timestamp of 17 August 2023.

Upstream: an issue has been raised on the evil-surround repo emacs-evil/evil-surround#204 (where it is assumed the issue resides - although happy to be corrected if this assumption is not right) - UPDATE: new package maintainer is aware of the issue and investigating.

Reproduction guide 🪲

• Start Emacs
• Open elisp or clojure file (or any lisp language)
• Insert ()
• In Normal mode, move cursor onto either paren and type d s followed by (
  • or use c s followed by (

Observed behaviour: 👀 💔

The () parens are not changed and the no surrounding delimiters found message reported in the Emacs buffer.

Expected behaviour: ❤️ 😄

Using d s folowed by ( should remove both parens, ()

Using c s followed by ( and then ] should replace the parens, () with []

System Info 💻

• OS: gnu/linux
• Emacs: 30.0.50
• Spacemacs: 0.999.0
• Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. b86a074)
• Graphic display: t
• Running in daemon: nil
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

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Backtrace 🐾

<<BACKTRACE IF RELEVANT>>

[practicalli-johnny]

Pinning the evil-surround package to an ealier version is a temporary resolution to the issue.

Edit the Spacemacs user configuration and add a recipe for evil-surround to pin the older version (pinned even during package updates).

Newer versions of evil-surround should be deleted from elpa/<emacs-version>/develop and then Emacs restarted, which should automatically download the package from the recipe

   dotspacemacs-additional-packages '((evil-surround
                                       :location
                                       (recipe :fetcher github
                                               :repo "emacs-evil/evil-surround"
                                               :commit "f273821f575ace519066fb106ee45a5b8577475f")))

[practicalli-johnny]

A fix for the issue has been pushed upstream and Melpa has just started a new build cycle so the updated package should be available within 2 hours.

To test before Melpa finishes the build, use the following recipe

(evil-surround
  :location
  (recipe :fetcher github
          :repo "emacs-evil/evil-surround"
          :commit "0d860be74165ceb8314742e4191cdad693f40a6d"))

[practicalli-johnny]

Melpa package updated with fix.