From: Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: Tree sitter support for C-like languages
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2022 10:40:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8njw5th.fsf@thornhill.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83pmdrkyj7.fsf@gnu.org>
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
>> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 21:14:21 +0100
>>
>> Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> >> See new patch here - following Stefans keen eye ;-)
>> >
>> > Applied and pushed, thanks ;-)
>>
>> Great news! Thanks, all!
>
> Thanks. The new C mode looks good, but I have a couple of issues with
> it.
>
Great - thanks for looking. I actually have answers too!
> First, something strange is going on when I type new code. Here's a
> recipe:
>
> emacs -Q
> C-x C-f newfile.c RET
> M-x c-ts-mode RET
> Type:
>
> int
> foo (void)
> {
>
> At this point, "int" is in font-lock-warning-face -- why?
>
If you enable 'treesit-inspect-mode' and put point on 'int', you will
see it report the 'ERROR' node. This node is font locked like that
because of the font lock rule I added for that case. I think we can
remove it, but it does serve some useful purpose.
> Next, with point after the brace, type RET -- this doesn't indent 2
> spaces, as I'd expect -- why? Typing TAB to indent doesn't help,
> either.
>
This is because tree-sitter doesn't know what to do with it. if you
rather type:
```
int
foo (void)
{}
```
It will know that it has a complete node and indent accordingly if you
press RET while inside the braces.
(no-node parent-bol c-ts-mode-indent-offset)
Now this indentation should happen as you want, even though we are in an
error state syntax-wise. At least after you do what you state just below
> I then type "int bar = 0;". Typing RET after that doesn't indent,
> either.
>
This is for the same reason. Adding the closing brace would fix that,
or the rule I mentioned. Now my code is indented like this:
```
int
foo ()
{
int bar = 0;
```
> But if I add an empty line at BOB, the fontification becomes as
> expected, and doesn't go back to font-lock-warning-face even if I then
> remove that empty line.
>
This is likely due to either treesit or tree-sitter or tree-sitter-c not
dealing properly with the root node. Maybe Yuan has some insight here?
> Type } to close the function. I now have this:
>
> int
> foo (void)
> {
> int bar = 0;
> }
>
> But "int" is still in font-lock-warning-face -- why?
>
I think the best solution is just to remove the
```
:language mode
:override t
:feature 'error
'((ERROR) @font-lock-warning-face)
```
> Next, I type this:
>
> struct foo {
> int bar;
> };
>
> The result is that all of the struct, except the closing brace, is in
> font-lock-warning-face -- why? Again, adding an empty line before
> that fixes fontifications, and the fontification stays correct even
> after removing that empty line.
>
> If I type
>
> struct bar
> {
> int foo;
> };
>
Same thing. Let's just remove it. I'll add a patch below, feel free to
install it.
> then the opening brace and "int foo;" are in font-lock-warning-face.
>
> Next, if I type M-;, I get a C++-style comment delimiter "//". It
> sounds like this is the only style of comments supported? More
> generally, if I compare c-basic-common-init and c-common-init from CC
> Mode with c-ts-mode, I see that the former has much more
> initializations than the latter. So I think we should audit what CC
> Mode does here and see what else is relevant. Alternatively, we could
> consider c-ts-mode be a minor mode of CC Mode, which only changes the
> fontification, the indentation, and the navigation parts.
>
I can take a look at that this evening - and see what else I can come up
with. I agree with the comment style
> Thanks.
>
> P.S. If these problems are non-trivial, it might be best to file a bug
> report for each one. But the last issue, the one about doing more
> stuff like CC Mode does, is something we should discuss here, I think,
> since this is basic design, and similar issues could exist for other
> modes whose *-ts-mode variants were installed on the branch.
Your issues are two-fold. The warning face is super easy, but the
indenting of error nodes may need a change of perspective. Tree-sitter
works best when syntax is correct, even though it handles errors pretty
well.
See patch
Theo
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From 8a21833d36239ed61d808064faa78d19d6fc5517 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2022 10:39:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Remove error node font locking
* lisp/progmodes/c-ts-mode.el (c-ts-mode--font-lock-settings)
(c-ts-mode--base-mode): Error node font locking causes too much noise.
---
lisp/progmodes/c-ts-mode.el | 8 ++------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/c-ts-mode.el b/lisp/progmodes/c-ts-mode.el
index 5617ea7d7c..7e7b554943 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/c-ts-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/c-ts-mode.el
@@ -326,11 +326,7 @@ c-ts-mode--font-lock-settings
:feature 'statement
'((expression_statement (identifier) @font-lock-variable-name-face)
(labeled_statement
- label: (statement_identifier) @font-lock-type-face))
- :language mode
- :override t
- :feature 'error
- '((ERROR) @font-lock-warning-face)))
+ label: (statement_identifier) @font-lock-type-face))))
(defun c-ts-mode--imenu-1 (node)
"Helper for `c-ts-mode--imenu'.
@@ -424,7 +420,7 @@ c-ts-mode--base-mode
(setq-local treesit-font-lock-feature-list
'((comment preprocessor operator constant string literal keyword)
(type definition expression statement)
- (error))))
+ ())))
;;;###autoload
(define-derived-mode c-ts-mode c-ts-mode--base-mode "C"
--
2.34.1
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Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-10 17:45 Tree sitter support for C-like languages Theodor Thornhill via Emacs development discussions.
2022-11-10 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-10 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-10 18:19 ` Theodor Thornhill
2022-11-10 22:58 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-11 5:48 ` Theodor Thornhill
2022-11-11 6:01 ` Theodor Thornhill via Emacs development discussions.
2022-11-12 5:43 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-12 6:13 ` Po Lu
2022-11-12 6:17 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-12 6:43 ` Po Lu
2022-11-12 6:16 ` Theodor Thornhill
2022-11-12 6:25 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-12 6:37 ` Theodor Thornhill
2022-11-12 8:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-12 8:42 ` Theodor Thornhill
2022-11-12 7:22 ` Theodor Thornhill via Emacs development discussions.
2022-11-12 8:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-12 8:43 ` Theodor Thornhill
2022-11-12 12:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-12 19:38 ` Theodor Thornhill via Emacs development discussions.
2022-11-12 19:46 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-11-12 20:03 ` Theodor Thornhill
2022-11-12 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-12 20:05 ` Theodor Thornhill via Emacs development discussions.
2022-11-12 20:08 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-12 20:14 ` Theodor Thornhill
2022-11-13 9:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-13 9:40 ` Theodor Thornhill [this message]
2022-11-13 9:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-13 10:13 ` Theodor Thornhill
2022-11-13 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-13 13:02 ` Theodor Thornhill
2022-11-13 13:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-13 13:37 ` Theodor Thornhill
2022-11-14 1:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-14 0:22 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-14 1:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-14 8:35 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-14 13:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-14 18:31 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-14 19:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-15 10:56 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-15 12:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-14 3:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-14 8:23 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-14 12:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-14 13:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-14 18:29 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-14 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-14 19:51 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-14 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-14 21:57 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-15 3:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-15 10:51 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-15 11:37 ` Theodor Thornhill
2022-11-15 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-15 16:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-15 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-15 18:18 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-15 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 7:58 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-16 13:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 13:29 ` Po Lu
2022-11-16 17:29 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-15 18:27 ` Visuwesh
2022-11-15 18:36 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-14 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-11 0:43 ` Randy Taylor
2022-11-11 5:50 ` Theodor Thornhill
2022-11-11 13:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-11 15:09 ` Theodor Thornhill
2022-11-11 15:54 ` Randy Taylor
2022-11-13 8:37 ` Theodor Thornhill
2022-11-13 13:03 ` Randy Taylor
2022-11-16 17:51 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-16 20:02 ` Theodor Thornhill
2022-11-16 20:10 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-16 20:25 ` Theodor Thornhill
2022-11-16 20:58 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-21 9:28 ` Yuan Fu
2022-11-21 11:15 ` Theodor Thornhill
2022-11-23 1:55 ` Yuan Fu
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