Re: New tree-sitter mode: bison-ts-mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 22:15:45 +0200
> From: Augustin Chéneau (BTuin) <btuin@mailo.com>
> 
> I'd like to propose a new tree-sitter mode for Emacs, bison-ts-mode.
> This is a major mode for GNU Bison grammar files, and it supports the 
> embedded languages C, C++ and Java.  Bison also supports D, but this 
> language is not yet supported in Emacs so this mode does not support it 
> either.
> 
> Since Bison is a superset of Yacc, it should work with Yacc without 
> modification.
> The grammar is available here: <https://gitlab.com/btuin2/tree-sitter-bison>

Thanks.

> In addition of the mode, three patches are joined (should I open a bug 
> report for those?).
> 
> 
> The first one is to add some missing rules in c-ts-mode.  Currently 
> there is no rule if an identifier in a declaration is on a new line.
> In these two cases, "variable_name" is not indented:
> 
> static myttype *
> variable_name;
> 
> static myttype
> variable_name;
> 
> The new behavior is the same as c-mode.

I think this patch should be installed on the emacs-29 branch.  (It is
a very small change, so we can install it even before the legal
paperwork is completed.)  Yuan, any objections or comments to this
one?