Re: Tree Sitter (was Re: cc-mode fontification feels random)

[Stephen Leake]

"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:

> Apologies for not having been present for, er, the extensive previous
> discussion on Tree Sitter. I discovered it looking at the archives. 

Ok.

> I still believe that it would be a great thing to integrate into the
> base of Emacs. The algorithms it employs are excellent, it's extremely
> fast, and it handles the issues of real editors (like dealing with
> partial code fragments and incrementally changing the parse on every
> keystroke) very efficiently.

+1.

I'm working on adding incremental parse to wisi (and have been for
almost a year now ...). I believe wisi has stronger error recovery than
tree-sitter, which allows it to support indentation.

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-- Stephe