Re: Tree-sitter introduction documentation

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com>
> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 13:08:45 -0600
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> >>> My main problem is where to put this stuff.
> >> 
> >> There are tree sitter Info pages in the ELisp topic but I would add some 
> >> to Emacs topic as well.  Perhaps under
> >>  Advanced Features
> >>    Tree Sitter
> >>      Setup and Getting Started
> >>      Font lock — describe the “features” concept, treesit-font-lock-level 
> >> and treesit-font-lock-recompute-features
> >> 
> >> The other topics seem more appropriate in ELisp which already exist.
> > 
> > This is not relevant to ELisp, so the ELisp Reference manual is not an
> > appropriate place for this stuff.
> 
> We might be talking about two different things.  In
> admin/notes/tree-sitter/html-manual are 10 html documents.  For
> example one is titled "Accessing Node Information".  All of those come
> from nodes within the ELisp Info doc. e.g.
> 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/doc/lispref/parsing.texi#n875
> 
> That seems like the right place for those nodes since they are rather
> low level.
> 
> The higher level user interface concepts I would think would need to
> be in the Emacs Info tree as I suggested.

This all started (for me, anyway), when you wrote:

> 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
> 
> Is there a page either in Info or on the web that contains all these steps?

I interpreted "all these steps" as meaning the description of how to
do all of the above: compile Emacs with tree-sitter enabled, install
the tree-sitter library, install the language grammar libraries.  By
contrast, the information to which you point is about writing code
that accesses parsing results provided by the tree-sitter library, a
very different kind of topic.  That topic _is_ described in the ELisp
manual, see the file doc/lispref/parsing.texi.