Disabling of highlighting on a particular language prevents text highlights from working

[jamespinkerton]

Describe the bug
When I disable highlighting in treesitter for a particular language, none of my text movements work.

To Reproduce

Here is my config in lazy nvim:

return {                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               ╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
  { -- Highlight, edit, and navigate code                                                                                                                                                                                                              │  lazy.nvim                             11:40:17 │
    "nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter",                                                                                                                                                                                                                 │━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━│
    build = function()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 │# Config Change Detected. Reloading...            │
      pcall(require("nvim-treesitter.install").update { with_sync = true })                                                                                                                                                                            │                                                  │
    end,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               │- changed: lua/plugins/nvim_treesitter.lua        │
    dependencies = "nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-textobjects",                                                                                                                                                                                      ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
    config = function()
      require("nvim-treesitter.configs").setup {
        modules = {},
        sync_install = false,
        auto_install = true,
        ensure_installed = { "python", "c", "cpp", "lua", "rust", "help", "vim" },
        ignore_install = { "help" },
        -- indent = { enable = true },
        indent = { enable = true, disable = { "python" } },
        -- highlight = { enable = true },
        highlight = { enable = true, disable = { "python" } },
        incremental_selection = {
          enable = true,
          keymaps = {
            init_selection = "<c-space>",
            node_incremental = "<c-space>",
            scope_incremental = "<c-s>",
            node_decremental = "<c-backspace>",
          },
        },
        textobjects = {
          select = {
            enable = true,
            lookahead = true, -- Automatically jump forward to textobj, similar to targets.vim
            keymaps = {
              -- You can use the capture groups defined in textobjects.scm
              ["aa"] = "@parameter.outer",
              ["ia"] = "@parameter.inner",
              ["af"] = "@function.outer",
              ["if"] = "@function.inner",
              ["ac"] = "@class.outer",
              ["ic"] = "@class.inner",
            },
          },
          move = {
            enable = true,
            set_jumps = true, -- whether to set jumps in the jumplist
            goto_next_start = {
              ["]m"] = "@function.outer",
              ["]]"] = "@class.outer",
            },
            goto_next_end = {
              ["]M"] = "@function.outer",
              ["]["] = "@class.outer",
            },
            goto_previous_start = {
              ["[m"] = "@function.outer",
              ["[["] = "@class.outer",
            },
            goto_previous_end = {
              ["[M"] = "@function.outer",
              ["[]"] = "@class.outer",
            },
          },
          swap = {
            enable = true,
            swap_next = {
              ["<leader>a"] = "@parameter.inner",
            },
            swap_previous = {
              ["<leader>A"] = "@parameter.inner",
            },
          },
        },
      }
    end,
  },
}

Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Open a python file and attempt to select with vif. It wont' work.

Expected behavior
Other actions should work despite highlighting being off.

Output of :checkhealth nvim-treesitter

==============================================================================
nvim-treesitter:                     require("nvim-treesitter.health").check()

Installation
- WARNING tree-sitter executable not found (parser generator, only needed for :TSInstallFromGrammar, not required for :TSInstall)
- OK node found v22.13.0 (only needed for :TSInstallFromGrammar)
- OK git executable found.
- OK /mnt/disks/condaman/mamba/bin/x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-cc executable found. Selected from { "/mnt/disks/condaman/mamba/bin/x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-cc", "cc", "gcc", "clang", "cl", "zig" }
  Version: x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-cc (conda-forge gcc 14.2.0-2) 14.2.0
- OK Neovim was compiled with tree-sitter runtime ABI version 15 (required >=13). Parsers must be compatible with runtime ABI.

OS Info:
{
  machine = "x86_64",
  release = "6.1.0-32-cloud-amd64",
  sysname = "Linux",
  version = "#1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.129-1 (2025-03-06)"
}

Parser/Features         H L F I J
  - c                   ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
  - cpp                 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
  - go                  ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
  - lua                 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
  - markdown            ✓ . ✓ ✓ ✓
  - markdown_inline     ✓ . . . ✓
  - python              ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
  - query               ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
  - rust                ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
  - typescript          ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
  - vim                 ✓ ✓ ✓ . ✓
  - vimdoc              ✓ . . . ✓

  Legend: H[ighlight], L[ocals], F[olds], I[ndents], In[j]ections
         +) multiple parsers found, only one will be used
         x) errors found in the query, try to run :TSUpdate {lang}

Output of nvim --version

NVIM v0.11.0
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.1741730670
Run "nvim -V1 -v" for more info