On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 3:06 PM Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > From: Perry Smith > > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:47:18 -0600 > > > > There are (I believe) four pieces to get Tree Sitter major modes to work. > > > > Emacs needs to be compiled with tree-sitter enabled > > The tree sitter binary needs to be installed > > The tree sitter language specific parser needs to be installed > > The appropriate major mode needs to be loaded and enabled > > That's correct. I agree this is a problem, especially the language specific parser bits. Yesterday I tried out tree sitter Emacs on my Arch system. Finding the tree-sitter system lib was easy enough, but finding the C++ definition object wasn't so easy. Eventually I made it, but it needed compilation from source and a NodeJS toolchain that I didn't know I needed for that. > > If not, and others agree, how can I help create one? I am thinking the entire page should be small and brief with references to more elaborate details on each of the four steps if needed. > > My main problem is where to put this stuff. Another problem is how to keep this information up-to-date.