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From: "Daniel Martín" <mardani29@yahoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Simplify the tree-sitter parser creation API
Date: Sun, 15 May 2022 16:39:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1pmke7tcn.fsf@yahoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m1pmke7tcn.fsf.ref@yahoo.es


Currently, there are three functions to create a tree-sitter parser:

- treesit-get-parser-create
- treesit-get-parser
- treesit-parser-create

I think this set of similarly named functions can be reduced, so that
developers don't need to remember a lot of APIs.  How I understand the
problem of creating a tree-sitter parser is that we need three things
from the developer:

- A programming language (a symbol).
- A buffer (optional, default to the current buffer).
- Whether to create or reuse an existing parser for that language.

I think it would be simpler to have just one parser creation API like

(treesit-make-parser LANGUAGE &optional BUFFER ALWAYS-NEW)

There are similar API patterns like this one already in Emacs.  With
this proposed API, the common case, which is to create a parser for the
current buffer, and to try to reuse one if it already exists, is very
simple from the POV of an ELisp developer integrating with tree-sitter:

(treesit-make-parser 'c)

Any thoughts?



       reply	other threads:[~2022-05-15 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <m1pmke7tcn.fsf.ref@yahoo.es>
2022-05-15 14:39 ` Daniel Martín [this message]
2022-05-16 20:50   ` Simplify the tree-sitter parser creation API Yuan Fu
2022-06-16 19:21     ` Yuan Fu

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