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

[Yuan Fu]

> On Sep 21, 2023, at 10:52 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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?

LGTM. How do you write the assignment except cookie? Is it PAPERWORK-EXEMPT: 
yes?

Yuan