Re: Standardizing tree-sitter fontification features

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:

> For tree-sitter-based major modes, fontification rules are categorized
> into “features”, which can be individually turned on/off. I think it
> would be good to have a standardized list of common features and their
> precise meaning defined. We’ve been working on these fontification
> rules for some time and arrived at a reasonable baseline, and now it’s
> a good time to discuss and bless it, I think.
>
> Right now we have:
>
> Basic tokens:
>
> delimiter       ,.;
> operator        = != ||
> bracket         []{}()
>
> constant        true, false, null
> number
> keyword
> comment
> string
> string-interpolation    f"text {variable}"
> escape-sequence         "\n\t\\"
> function                every function identifier
> variable                every variable identifier
> type                    every type identifier
> property                a.b  <--- highlight b

namespace would be useful; in some languages, like C++, the syntax
namespace::namespace::object.member makes it clear which identifiers are
namespaces. In others, like Ada the syntax is
namespace.namespace.object.member, so it's not clear.

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