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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: arthur.miller@live.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using incremental parsing in Emacs
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 04:41:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b8f4dd3c-728f-8de5-fbbc-62fafa834f36@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838smfahbx.fsf@gnu.org>

On 10.01.2020 9:41, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
>> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:56:38 +0300
>>
>> (**) Which means that if we try to use Tree-Sitter as-is, our current
>> practice of defining the language grammar in Lisp would go our of the
>> window. https://github.com/ubolonton/emacs-tree-sitter demonstrates this
>> as well: language grammars have to be compiled into a shared library (or
>> libraries). We would have lots of grammars supplied by the third party,
>> which is kind of good, but we would lose the ease of experimenting with
>> them that we have now, or being able to write support for a new
>> up-and-coming language very quickly. Which a certain fraction of our
>> users enjoys, AFAIK.
> 
> If we provide infrastructure for using the likes of Tree-Sitter in
> core, how long do you think it will take until someone rewrites their
> JS generator of parse tables in Lisp?  And we already have machinery
> in place for loading external shared objects; it can be extended if
> necessary to handle loading parse tables.

It's should be easy enough to convert between the JS and Lisp syntax. 
But how do you compile it to a library that Tree-Sitter expects without 
having the user install a C compiler toolchain?

IIRC you objected against features relying on something like this in the 
past.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-11  1:41 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
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 [this message]
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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