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Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes
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Brian |
Subject: |
Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes |
Date: |
Sun, 9 Oct 2022 14:36:22 +0000 |
Hello,
I looked through some major modes and IIUC they already have an
author assigned to them. I haven't seen this practice on other
FLOSS projects I encountered GitHub, any pointers on how this
process works on Emacs?
TIA
On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 9:03 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> The Emacs 29 release branch is planned to be cut in about 1.5 months,
> and we want tree-sitter support to be in Emacs 29. The Emacs Git
> repository has a feature branch that integrates tree-sitter with
> Emacs. That branch is being prepared for landing on master. However,
> currently there's only one major-mode which can use tree-sitter
> support on the branch: Python mode. We need to add tree-sitter
> integration to more major modes, so that Emacs 29 could have
> reasonably useful tree-sitter support options in at least the popular
> major modes.
>
> This is a call for volunteers to work on adding tree-sitter support to
> major modes beyond Python, and on improving the existing support in
> Python mode.
>
> Some of the popular major modes for which we would like to see
> tree-sitter support in Emacs 29 are:
>
> c-mode
> c++-mode
> emacs-lisp-mode
> js-mode
> js-json-mode
> ruby-mode
> shell-script-mode
>
> We probably won't have all of them by Emacs 29, but we hope to have at
> least some.
>
> So if you are interested in enhancing your favorite major-mode with
> tree-sitter support, and by doing that making Emacs 29 much better,
> please checkout the feature/tree-sitter branch, and start working on
> some mode(s). Tree-sitter support for a major-mode should include
> enhancement of one or more of the following Emacs features:
>
> - font-lock
> - indentation
> - navigation (beginning-of-defun-function etc.)
> - imenu
> - which-func
> - thing-at-point
>
> We think that font-lock is the absolute minimum, followed by
> indentation.
>
> To help with this effort, Yuan Fu, who did most of the development on
> this feature branch, wrote a document with guidance notes which aim to
> help you implement tree-sitter support for the above features. You
> will find that document and some other helpful documentation in the
> admin/notes/tree-sitter directory and its subdirectories on the
> branch. That directory also includes scripts for easy compilation of
> tree-sitter language modules (which you will need to download from the
> tree-sitter site).
>
> We hope that the existing support for Python can serve as working
> example of how to add tree-sitter support for other major modes, and
> together with the guidance document it will allow you to add support
> for more modes with minimum effort. Don't hesitate to ask questions
> if something is unclear or you need more advice.
>
> We hope volunteers will step forward in time to make tree-sitter
> integration in Emacs 29 functional and useful. To avoid waste of
> effort, please announce here on which major mode(s) you decided to
> work.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
- Re: Turing on tree-sitter (was: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes), (continued)
- Re: Turing on tree-sitter (was: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes), Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/10
- Re: Turing on tree-sitter (was: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes), Theodor Thornhill, 2022/10/10
- Re: Turing on tree-sitter (was: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes), Yuan Fu, 2022/10/10
- Re: Turing on tree-sitter, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/10/10
- Re: Turing on tree-sitter, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/10
- Re: Turing on tree-sitter, Stefan Monnier, 2022/10/10
- Re: Turing on tree-sitter, Daniel MartÃn, 2022/10/10
- Re: Turing on tree-sitter (was: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes), Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/10
- Re: Turing on tree-sitter (was: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes), Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/10
- Re: Turing on tree-sitter, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/10/10
Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes,
Brian <=
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/09
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Brian, 2022/10/09
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/09
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Brian, 2022/10/09
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/09
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Yuan Fu, 2022/10/09
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Brian, 2022/10/10
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Po Lu, 2022/10/10
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Brian, 2022/10/10
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Yuan Fu, 2022/10/10