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

[Yuan Fu]

> On Jun 28, 2022, at 12:35 PM, Yoav Marco <yoavm448@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Whoops, my mail turned out garbaled, sorry.
> 
> Corrected version:
> 
> Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> Also I think it makes more sense if you just fork it rather than making a 
>>>> PR.
>>> 
>>> Yeah, I don't really expect it to be merged.
>>> 
>>> My reason for the PR is for it to be more of a talking point about
>>> collaboration between treesit and tree-sitter-langs. I used
>>> elisp-tree-sitter before trying the feature/tree-sitter branch, and I
>>> really like the richness of its highlighting (which comes from the
>>> highlights.scm files).
>> 
>> Do you already have the highlighting working for treesit?
> 
> I only checked a few, but yeah, and the syntax highlighting is very pretty.

Cool.

> 
>> If so, maybe you can packages it in a separate package and publish it,
>> it would be a nice demonstration of treesit features.
> 
> I'm not comfortable with doing that, the query patterns update
> frequently upstream (though ubolonton has been busy lately) and all I'm
> doing is post-process them a little.
> 
> I could try to make a self-updating repo or something with CI -
> https://github.com/meain/evil-textobj-tree-sitter for example pulls
> highlights.scm changes from nvim's repo weeky.
> 
> Is that worth it? I thought people could just as easily use my PR
> branch of tree-sitter-langs. That also takes care of fetching grammars.

That would be a lot of work. Using your PR repo is fine, I think. I can just 
refer to your fork.

Thanks,
Yuan