Re: Using incremental parsing in Emacs

[Stephen Leake]

Alan Third <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 02:46:14PM +0000, arthur miller wrote:
>> 
>> There is a very good presentation of tree-sitter on YT by its author:
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jes3bD6P0To
>> 
>> Looks much better then what I got a picture by just reading on the
>> website:
>
> I watched this video and it looks to me like tree sitter is trying to
> solve a fundamentally different problem than LSP servers.
>
> Most of the conversation in this thread seems to make the assumption
> that tree sitter and LSP are mutually exclusive, which is clearly not
> true.

tree sitter could be the parser inside an LSP server

Which was my first point; LSP servers can take advantage of advanced/new
parsing technology, and they immediately become available to Emacs.

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