Re: emacs-tree-sitter and font-lock

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 29.03.2020 21:54, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > I think it's just a reflection of the fact that author doesn't know
> > > enough about jit-lock and font-lock.
> > Indeed, that font-lock rule can be a function is not very well-known.
>
> Although it seems fairly clearly documented.
> Not sure how we could solve this.

Not sure either.

I once wrote a SO answer describing this, it was well-accepted.

> > > I sent him some patches that should help.
> > That's mighty good of you.
> > I was curious and wanted to take a look, though, but couldn't find them
> > neither among pull requests, nor the issue comments. :-(
>
> I don't how to participate in a Github pull request with
> Free Software. 

Have you tried just using it through Firefox with JavaScript disabled 
(which is probably the crux of your "only Free Software" complaint)?

I can both log into GitHub this way, and create/comment on issues. And a 
pull request is also "an issue", in that it also has a comments section.

Less essential features don't work, but that's beside the point.

> IIUC there are some Elisp packages for that, but
> I haven't investigated how that would work.
> So I sent the patches via email.  I put the main one after my sig.

Thanks, it looks quite reasonable.