[Question] Why is Alternations not working in this case?

[grierson]

I'm trying to write an aQuery to select the inner range of either a list_lit or a vec_lit TSNode for Clojure

(+ 1 2 3)     ;; list_lit
[1 2 3]       ;; vec_lit

I've created individual queries for each type which work however, within an alternation it doesn't.

; -- Works: Get List start and end
(list_lit . value: (_) @_list_start value: (_) @_list_end .)

; -- Works: Get Vector start and end
(vec_lit . value: (_) @_vec_start value: (_) @_vec_end .)

; -- Alternations Fails: List or Vector inner start and end
([list_lit vec_lit] . value: (_) @_start value: (_) @_end .)

I don't know how to debug why it's not working. Could anyone help explain what's happening please?

[scanny]

I believe list_lit and vec_lit in the alternation each need parens around them. Have you tried that?

([
    (list_lit)
    (vec_lit)
 ]
    . value: (_) @_start
      value: (_) @_end .
) @list_or_vec_lit