Re: Tree-sitter introduction documentation

[Philip Kaludercic]

Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com> writes:

>> On Dec 16, 2022, at 09:24, João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 3:06 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > > From: Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com>
>> > > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:47:18 -0600
>> > >
>> > > There are (I believe) four pieces to get Tree Sitter major modes to work.
>> > >
>> > > Emacs needs to be compiled with tree-sitter enabled
>> > > The tree sitter binary needs to be installed
>> > > The tree sitter language specific parser needs to be installed
>> > > The appropriate major mode needs to be loaded and enabled
>> >
>> > That's correct.
>> 
>> I agree this is a problem, especially the language specific parser
>> bits.  Yesterday I tried out tree sitter Emacs on my Arch system.
>> Finding the tree-sitter system lib was easy enough, but finding the C++
>> definition object wasn't so easy.  Eventually I made it,  but it needed
>> compilation from source and a NodeJS toolchain that I didn't know
>> I needed for that.
>
> This is new news to me.  I downloaded this repository:
> https://github.com/casouri/tree-sitter-module
>
> And did: ./build.sh <lang>

Certainly this is not the intended way to get tree-sitter working, at
least in the long term?  I am not up-to-date with tree-sitter
development in general, but is it planned for distributions to package
the grammars and have them installed on a language-level?  I don't
suppose it would make sense for them to be distributed along with Emacs,
or does it?

> The same scripts are in the Emacs source down this path
> admin/notes/tree-sitter/build-module
>
> Perry