From: arthur miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Using incremental parsing in Emacs
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 15:16:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <VI1P194MB042942BE48FBBA1C789B6AD9963D0@VI1P194MB0429.EURP194.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200105145002.GB71296@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (Alan Third's message of "Sun, 5 Jan 2020 14:50:02 +0000")
Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 02:46:14PM +0000, arthur miller wrote:
>>
>> There is a very good presentation of tree-sitter on YT by its author:
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jes3bD6P0To
>>
>> Looks much better then what I got a picture by just reading on the
>> website:
>
> I watched this video and it looks to me like tree sitter is trying to
> solve a fundamentally different problem than LSP servers.
>
> Most of the conversation in this thread seems to make the assumption
> that tree sitter and LSP are mutually exclusive, which is clearly not
> true.
>
> Tree sitter provides a fast and accurate parse tree to the editor
> which it can then use for syntax highlighting, moving by syntax
> element, code folding, expand region, etc.
>
> LSP does not provide that and possibly never will:
>
> https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/682#issuecomment-486676262
>
> Tree sitter does not provide error checking (although it does some
> basic syntax checking simply through being a parser), language aware
> refactoring, completion, etc. Things that LSP DOES provide.
>
> One of the things that interested me the most in that presentation was
> the discussion of syntax highlighting on very long lines. Perhaps it
> couldn’t help Emacs, but it certainly made me think.
Yesterday evening after thinking for a while, I also got to conclusion
that tree-sitter provides just syntax coloring. However it does
provide an AST so question is if that AST can be used for more than just
syntax coloring.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-05 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-03 10:05 Using incremental parsing in Emacs Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-03 13:36 ` 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 [this message]
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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