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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 08 May 2022 16:25:43 +0200
> From: Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
>  The way I understand it, to use TS for a given language, you need: 
>  - The TS runtime (which should be included in Emacs if you use the 
>    corresponding feature branch and which include what I'd called "the 
>    incremental parser"). 
>  - The language's grammar.  This is usually a .js file and is compiled to 
>    an .so file by the tree sitter tools.  This is *not* included in the 
>    feature branch (neither the grammars nor the tools). 
>  - The glue in the major mode code. 
> 
> Yes, and the tree-sitter-module repo provides a way to compile these 
> grammar.js files into an object emacs
> understands.

My understanding was that tree-sitter can load these *.js parsers as
they are downloaded from the respective sites, or that there are tools
available to compile them if needed.  Why cannot we leave it to users
to do that by themselves, instead of using an Emacs module?