Re: Tree-sitter integration on feature/tree-sitter

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 08 May 2022 15:47:48 +0200
> From: Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no>
> Cc: casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
>  I don't understand.  I thought tree-sitter itself was such a parser. 
>  Why do we need another one as an Emacs module? 
> 
> Because the only implementation possible for emacs is the generic parser. It 
> needs specific parsers to be
> inserted. The two are orthogonal, but related.
> 
> Emacs cannot and should not contain such parser binaries. They are os and 
> architecture specific. 
> 
> Also, this way the parsers can more easily be fixed
> 
> Does that make sense?

I cannot say, sorry.  Because I still don't understand the need.

Let me ask this another way: what job does this parser do, and how it
is different from the parsing performed by tree-sitter itself?