Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
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Re: Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
#2Is this the same thing neovim uses for syntax highlighting?
Is there a chance for it getting integrated to vim? Last I checked vim used a regex method which was slow and faulty.
Re: Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
#3Is this the same thing neovim uses for syntax highlighting? Is there a chance for it getting integrated to vim? Last I checked vim used a regex method which was slow and faulty.
Yup, neovim 0.5+ will be using treesitter for any supported languages, with the current Regex highlighting as a fallback.
Re: Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
#4Is this the same thing neovim uses for syntax highlighting? Is there a chance for it getting integrated to vim? Last I checked vim used a regex method which was slow and faulty.
Yup, neovim 0.5+ will be using treesitter for any supported languages, with the current Regex highlighting as a fallback.
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#5To me, the most impressive use of tree-sitter was an iOS text editor that uses it to parse huge JSON files / mixed language files and highlight them in a very robust way. [0][1] I’m hoping tree-sitter becomes more common like LSP and Emacs can get exact highlighting and other tools with it…
[0]: https://twitter.com/simonbs/status/1352697855845273600
[1]: https://twitter.com/simonbs/status/1362492842141171720?s=21
Re: Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
#6To me, the most impressive use of tree-sitter was an iOS text editor that uses it to parse huge JSON files / mixed language files and highlight them in a very robust way. [0][1] I’m hoping tree-sitter becomes more common like LSP and Emacs can get exact highlighting and other tools with it… [0]: https://twitter.com/simonbs/status/1352697855845273600 [1]: https://twitter.com/simonbs/status/1362492842141171720?s=21
Yeah but I don't think LSP specs contain syntax-highlighting or semantic highlighting.
Re: Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
#7To me, the most impressive use of tree-sitter was an iOS text editor that uses it to parse huge JSON files / mixed language files and highlight them in a very robust way. [0][1] I’m hoping tree-sitter becomes more common like LSP and Emacs can get exact highlighting and other tools with it… [0]: https://twitter.com/simonbs/status/1352697855845273600 [1]: https://twitter.com/simonbs/status/1362492842141171720?s=21
FYI there is tree-sitter.el for Emacs.
Re: Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
#8To me, the most impressive use of tree-sitter was an iOS text editor that uses it to parse huge JSON files / mixed language files and highlight them in a very robust way. [0][1] I’m hoping tree-sitter becomes more common like LSP and Emacs can get exact highlighting and other tools with it… [0]: https://twitter.com/simonbs/status/1352697855845273600 [1]: https://twitter.com/simonbs/status/1362492842141171720?s=21
Emacs does have a package to use tree-sitter [0]. I think emacs-lsp is aware of this highlighting backend and performs pretty well.
(semantic highlighting is pretty slow for C++ with font-lock, with tree-sitter it's a breeze :))
Re: Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
#9Is the use case for this mainly IDEs or is it intended to replace traditional lexer and parser generators too?
Re: Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
#10To me, the most impressive use of tree-sitter was an iOS text editor that uses it to parse huge JSON files / mixed language files and highlight them in a very robust way. [0][1] I’m hoping tree-sitter becomes more common like LSP and Emacs can get exact highlighting and other tools with it… [0]: https://twitter.com/simonbs/status/1352697855845273600 [1]: https://twitter.com/simonbs/status/1362492842141171720?s=21
Yeah but I don't think LSP specs contain syntax-highlighting or semantic highlighting.
LSP supports semantic highlighting: https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifi...
Though AIUI the basic syntax highlighting is done by the editor (e.g. VSCode uses Textmate grammar support).