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bug#55428: [feature/tree-sitter] Simplify the parser creation API
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#55428: [feature/tree-sitter] Simplify the parser creation API |
Date: |
Sun, 15 May 2022 17:26:11 +0300 |
> Date: Sun, 15 May 2022 16:15:57 +0200
> From: Daniel Martín via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
>
> Currently, there are three functions to create a tree-sitter parser:
>
> - treesit-get-parser-create
> - treesit-get-parser
> - treesit-parser-create
>
> I think this set of similarly named functions can be reduced, so that
> developers don't need to remember a lot of APIs. How I understand the
> problem of creating a tree-sitter parser is that we need three things
> from the developer:
>
> - A programming language (a symbol).
> - A buffer (optional, default to the current buffer).
> - Whether to create or reuse an existing parser for that language.
>
> I think it would be simpler to have just one parser creation API like
>
> (treesit-make-parser LANGUAGE &optional BUFFER ALWAYS-NEW)
I suggest that discussions about the API be held on emacs-devel, not
hear. That way, more people will see them and could decide whether to
participate.
Thanks.