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

[Stephen Leake]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Sun, 08 May 2022 11:19:31 +0200
>> From: Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no>
>> Cc: casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> You need the parser on a path emacs can see. Either we need to
>> implement some generic parser
>> installation functions in emacs, or we need this module or others
>> like it. It compiles the grammar and creates
>> a shared object that is read by emacs tree sitter. This is the
>> tedious and error prone part.
>
> I don't understand.  I thought tree-sitter itself was such a parser.
> Why do we need another one as an Emacs module?

Tree-sitter is a parser _generator_, and a run-time for supporting such
generated parsers.

The Emacs tree-sitter module has only the tree-sitter run-time, not the
parse table and other stuff generated for the language-specific parser.

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