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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Using incremental parsing in Emacs
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 12:05:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83blrkj1o1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)

Would someone like to try to figure out how we could use the
incremental parsing technology in Emacs for making our
programming-language support more accurate and efficient?  One package
that implements this technology is tree-sitter:

  https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/

AFAIU, these capabilities could be used as an alternative to
regexp- and syntax-pps-based font-lock, better code folding,
completion, refactoring, and other similar features; in general, any
feature which would benefit from having a parse tree for the source
code in a buffer.

To be able to use such libraries, we need to figure out how to
integrate them into the core, what kind of interfaces would be needed
for that, and what kind of infrastructure we would need for basing
Lisp features on those libraries.  Posting practical ideas for design
of all that would be a good first step in this promising direction.
Bonus points for providing code patches that demonstrate the
implementation of these ideas.

TIA



             reply	other threads:[~2020-01-03 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-03 10:05 Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-01-03 13:36 ` Using incremental parsing in Emacs phillip.lord
2020-01-03 14:24   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-03 15:43     ` arthur miller
2020-01-03 16:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-01-03 17:09   ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-01-03 19:39 ` Stephen Leake
2020-01-03 20:05   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-03 22:21     ` arthur miller
2020-01-04  3:46       ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-04  8:23       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-03 23:53     ` Stephen Leake
2020-01-04  8:45       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-04 14:05         ` arthur miller
2020-01-04 19:26         ` Stephen Leake
2020-01-04 19:54           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 17:05             ` Stephen Leake
2020-01-05 19:14               ` yyoncho
2020-01-05 22:44     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-01-04  3:59 ` HaiJun Zhang
     [not found] ` <41b3e9a0-2866-4692-a35c-6d9541bc3aaa@Spark>
2020-01-04  4:57   ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-04  8:55     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-04 12:50       ` VanL
2020-01-04 13:22         ` arthur miller
2020-01-04 23:47         ` Replacing all C code???? Richard Stallman
2020-01-05  3:35           ` VanL
2020-01-05 22:19             ` Richard Stallman
2020-01-05  5:01           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05 16:58             ` Fangrui Song
2020-01-05 22:18             ` Richard Stallman
2020-01-05 22:25               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-07  2:34                 ` VanL
2020-01-04 13:30       ` Using incremental parsing in Emacs arthur miller
2020-01-04 13:42         ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-01-04 14:46 ` arthur miller
2020-01-05 14:50   ` Alan Third
2020-01-05 15:16     ` arthur miller
2020-01-05 15:29     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 15:31     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 17:11     ` Stephen Leake
2020-01-09 21:56   ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-01-10  7:41     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-11  1:41       ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-01-11  7:53         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-11 12:24           ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-01-11 12:29             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-04 20:26 ` Yuan Fu
2020-01-04 20:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05 14:19   ` Alan Third
2020-01-05 17:07     ` Stephen Leake
2020-01-05 19:16       ` Alan Third
2020-01-05 17:09     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05 18:22       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 19:18         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05 19:36           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 20:27             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05 21:12               ` yyoncho
2020-01-05 22:10                 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-05 23:08                   ` yyoncho
2020-01-06  3:39                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 19:23         ` arthur miller
2020-01-05 19:40           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 20:28             ` arthur miller
2020-01-06  3:42               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-06  4:39                 ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-06  5:33                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-06  5:55                     ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-06  6:11                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-06 16:45                     ` arthur miller
2020-01-07 16:19                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-06 13:47                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-06 16:36                     ` HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-06 16:48                     ` arthur miller
2020-01-06 16:14 ` Anand Tamariya
     [not found] <1504933445.581219.1569619792280.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2019-09-27 21:29 ` Where to place third-party C source code? Jorge Araya Navarro
2019-09-28  6:31   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-28  7:33     ` Jorge Javier Araya Navarro
2019-09-28 12:54       ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-26 16:52         ` yyoncho
2020-01-04  3:25           ` Using incremental parsing in Emacs HaiJun Zhang
2020-01-04  5:21             ` Tobias Bading
2020-01-04 23:48             ` Richard Stallman
2020-01-05  3:36               ` Eli Zaretskii

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