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AFAIK Neovim 0.5 uses tree-sitter. Is there any effort to integrate tree-sitter with Emacs in an easy way?

• ywei3410 5y ago
  Sort of. The integration needs to be done per-language, though helper packages like emacs-tree-sitter [1] exist. Afaik, C# mode currently uses it [2] though I'm not sure whether any other languages use it yet. [1] https://github.com/ubolonton/emacs-tree-sitter https://github.com/ubolonton/emacs-tree-sitter [2] https://github.com/emacs-csharp/csharp-mode/blob/master/csharp-tree-sitter.el https://github.com/emacs-csharp/csharp-mode/blob/master/csha...
• fmakunbound 5y ago
  Emacs already has Semantic https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/semantic.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/semantic... which seems similar in functionality. It’s been around for ages but more recently it has become part of Emacs proper.
  • b3morales 5y ago
    Semantic is pretty cool. The advantage that Treesitter has (shared with LSP servers) is that it's client-agnostic. So while no one besides fellow Emacs users are going to hack on the Semantic parser for a given language, Treesitter can potentially draw help from users of any editor, or even people doing other things like building analysis tools.
  • cjohansson 5y ago
    Semantic is used less and less I would say, there is not enough people involved in keeping it and it's grammars updated, it also suffers lack of asychronicity. Tree-sitter and LSP has the advantage of re-using code for multiple editors