Re: tree-sitter: Paths used for loading of language definitions

[Stephen Leake]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 02:02:43 -0700
>> Cc: jostein@kjonigsen.net,
>>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> > On Oct 17, 2022, at 1:02 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> > 
>> >> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 09:14:58 +0200
>> >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> >> From: Jostein Kjønigsen <jostein@secure.kjonigsen.net>
>> >> 
>> >> textmodes/mhtml-mode.el:29:2: Error: Cannot load language definition: 
>> >> "javascript",
>> >> ("/home/jostein/.emacs.d/tree-sitter/libtree-sitter-javascript:
>> >> cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>> >> directory"
>> >> "/home/jostein/.emacs.d/tree-sitter/libtree-sitter-javascript.so:
>> >> cannot open shared object file: No
>> >> such file or directory" "libtree-sitter-javascript: cannot open
>> >> shared object file: No such file or directory"
>> >> "libtree-sitter-javascript.so: cannot open shared object file: No
>> >> such file or directory")
>> > 
>> > The error data should be improved to provide a more informative error
>> > message.  It would be best to display just the name of the language
>> > definition library, without leading directories.
>> 
>> You mean something like 
>> 
>> Error: Cannot load language definition: "javascript”, 
>> “libtree-sitter-javascript.so”
>> 
>> ?
>
> Better yet
>
>   Error: Cannot load language definition: "javascript”,
> “libtree-sitter-javascript.so”: No such file or directory

I would find it helpful if the error message told me what variable
contains the search path, so I can append the correct directory to it.

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-- Stephe