operating on inner/outer functions not working in rust (for me).

[joergbeyer]

Describe the bug

( just FYI: the https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter#troubleshooting section exists for the "master" branch, but not for "head")

operating on inner/outer function for rust does not work for me.

To Reproduce

1. create a simple rust file "main.rs" like this:

fn test() {
    println!("test");
    if true {
        println!("true");
    }
}

1. put the cursor anywhere inside, eg on the "if"
2. in normal mode type "vaF" - nothing happens.

I can confirmw with ":verbose xmap aF" that it's mapped to "@function.outer".

operating on e.g. a "{...}" block works as expected.

Expected behavior

I would have expected that "vaF" marks the entire function.

Output of :checkhealth nvim-treesitter

nvim-treesitter:                                                            ✅

Requirements ~
- ✅ OK Neovim was compiled with tree-sitter runtime ABI version 15 (required >=13).
- ✅ OK tree-sitter-cli 0.26.5 (/home/joerg/.npm-global/bin/tree-sitter)
- ✅ OK tar 1.35.0 (/usr/bin/tar)
- ✅ OK curl 8.14.1 (/usr/bin/curl)
  curl 8.14.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/8.14.1 OpenSSL/3.5.3 zlib/1.3.1 brotli/1.1.0 zstd/1.5.7 libidn2/2.3.8 libpsl/0.21.2 libssh2/1.11.1 nghttp2/1.64.0 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.6.10
  Release-Date: 2025-06-04, security patched: 8.14.1-2ubuntu1.1
  Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher gophers http https imap imaps ipfs ipns ldap ldaps mqtt pop3 pop3s rtmp rtsp scp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp ws wss
  Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS brotli GSS-API HSTS HTTP2 HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz NTLM PSL SPNEGO SSL threadsafe TLS-SRP UnixSockets zstd

OS Info ~
- machine: x86_64
- version: nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter#8-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Nov 14 21:44:46 UTC 2025
- sysname: Linux
- release: 6.17.0-8-generic

Install directory for parsers and queries ~
- /home/joerg/.local/share/nvim/site/
- ✅ OK is writable.
- ✅ OK is in runtimepath.

Installed languages     H L F I J ~
- bash                  ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
- c                     ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
- lua                   ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
- markdown              ✓ . ✓ ✓ ✓
- markdown_inline       ✓ . . . ✓
- python                ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
- rust                  ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

  Legend: [H]ighlights, [L]ocals, [F]olds, [I]ndents, In[J]ections ~

Output of nvim --version

nvim --version                                                                                                                                                        
NVIM v0.11.6
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.1741730670
Run "nvim -V1 -v" for more info

Additional context

No response

[joergbeyer]

can some confirm if this is reproducible?

[sharpchen]

I use mini.ai to set text-object, it works. So the query should be correct, it might be a search method issue.

[kiyoon]

It works for me

(I previously said it selects something else, but I realised I had a different mapping. My bad)

[joergbeyer]

I can confirm that I also get it to work with a mini.ai config.

not sure why the treesitter approach is not working and how to deal with that.
I have a way to work with funtion block, through the 'echasnovski/mini.ai' plugin.

Not sure if anyone will still look into this problem with treesitter. For now I am switching to mini.ai. Thanks for the responses.