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I'm using tree sitter based code folding right now on my script. Everything goes haywire after opening and closing folds after a few minutes, partials folds wit

I'm using tree sitter based code folding right now on my script. Everything goes haywire after opening and closing folds after a few minutes, partials folds with missing elements start appearing everywhere. Falling back to the old regex based code folding makes things much more accurate (albiet still sometimes buggy) but everything becomes slow as hell, especially when I scroll pages using Ctrl+f,b.

aidos 5y ago
I had the same experience as you. I never use folding but I thought I’d give it a shot to see if it enhanced my workflow at all. Figured that tree sitter should make it robust, but it ended up mangled almost immediately. It’s not something I care enough about to dig into deeper but I suspect whatever is going on will be fixed at some point.
- ayushnix 5y ago
  > I had the same experience as you. People are proselytising NeoVim as an IDE and as a replacement for VSCode when it lacks features that VScode supports out of the box without extensions or plugins. It's not just code folding, indent visualizations are buggy in NeoVim as well, another feature VSCode supports out of the box without plugins. Almost everyone seems to be circlejerking about things like LSP and there are dozens of plugins for it including a built in plugin but NeoVim lacks basic features like code folding and indent visualizations. Goes on to show where the focus of the community is - flashy and attractive over functional. I'm still using NeoVim because I'm too used to it but that's the only reason. Mental Threshold. The FOSS community really is filled with fundamentalists.
  - aidos 5y ago
    That seems like a load of weird and unnecessary generalised judgements. There’s nothing wrong with people wanting to improve tooling and LSP has ushered in a new era of hybrid approaches where you can use the editor you love but get enhancements to the experience. Tree sitter also provides a new interesting way to interact with code, but the whole ecosystem is in its infancy. All of this stuff is improving rapidly and personally I’m happy with it now. I don’t want / need a full IDE and there’s nothing wrong with that.

aidos 5y ago

I had the same experience as you. I never use folding but I thought I’d give it a shot to see if it enhanced my workflow at all. Figured that tree sitter should make it robust, but it ended up mangled almost immediately. It’s not something I care enough about to dig into deeper but I suspect whatever is going on will be fixed at some point.

ayushnix 5y ago
> I had the same experience as you. People are proselytising NeoVim as an IDE and as a replacement for VSCode when it lacks features that VScode supports out of the box without extensions or plugins. It's not just code folding, indent visualizations are buggy in NeoVim as well, another feature VSCode supports out of the box without plugins. Almost everyone seems to be circlejerking about things like LSP and there are dozens of plugins for it including a built in plugin but NeoVim lacks basic features like code folding and indent visualizations. Goes on to show where the focus of the community is - flashy and attractive over functional. I'm still using NeoVim because I'm too used to it but that's the only reason. Mental Threshold. The FOSS community really is filled with fundamentalists.
- aidos 5y ago
  That seems like a load of weird and unnecessary generalised judgements. There’s nothing wrong with people wanting to improve tooling and LSP has ushered in a new era of hybrid approaches where you can use the editor you love but get enhancements to the experience. Tree sitter also provides a new interesting way to interact with code, but the whole ecosystem is in its infancy. All of this stuff is improving rapidly and personally I’m happy with it now. I don’t want / need a full IDE and there’s nothing wrong with that.