Re: New package emacs-parser-generator

[Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>]

> On Nov 30, 2021, at 11:52 PM, Christian Johansson <christian@cvj.se> wrote:
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> Alright, could you give some more details about when a buffer parse is triggered, is it via threads, is it sometimes incremental, does it work on a string copy of the buffer or on the buffer contents directly?

Tree-sitter parses incrementally, I modified primitive insert/delete functions in insdel.c to incrementally parse changed content. There is no need for threads as incremental parsing is extremely fast. We don’t make copies of buffer string, instead, we pass tree-sitter library a function that reads directly from the buffer.

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> Does treesitter expose a (faster) regexp matcher that perhaps can be used by my library?

Not that I know of. 

IIUC, tree-sitter integration doesn’t have much to do with proposed emacs-parser-generator, it just exposes tree-sitter to Emacs, and adds some integration to font-lock and indentation that leverages tree-sitter features; whereas emacs-parser-generator seems to be about defining grammar and generating elisp parsers.

Yuan