Re: tree-sitter version?

["T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>]

also the   name "ts" as part of tree-sitter is an unfortunate
confusion since ts-mode is for typescript.

I initally wrongly assumed that ts-mode was some kind of global mode
that would enable tree-support for all supported modes, given the
names c-ts-mode etc.Yuan Fu writes:
 > 
 > 
 > > On Nov 23, 2022, at 9:54 PM, Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:
 > > 
 > > Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:
 > > 
 > > Hi Yuan,
 > > 
 > >>> So: am I supposed to install tree-sitter from github or from debian's
 > >>> package manager?
 > >> 
 > >> Either should be fine.
 > > 
 > > Ah, I was wondering the same when I wanted to give tree-sitter a try.  I
 > > have tree-sitter 0.20.7 installed but the configure output said
 > > ">=0.20.2 no" but only reported a >= 0.6.x version.  It still works
 > > fine. :-)
 > > 
 > >>> I first did the package-manager version, then pulled from github and
 > >>> installed that -- configure shows that tree-sitter is detected -- but
 > >>> calling any of the tree-sitter modes, eg c-ts-mode barfs with an
 > >>> error saying that support is not available.
 > >> 
 > >> If you call tree-sitter-available-p, what do you get? Most likely you
 > >> don’t have the relevant language definition/grammar for those
 > >> modes. You can probably find them on package managers, or you can
 > >> build with the script here:
 > > 
 > > Indeed, that was the next trap I fell in.  On Arch, tree-sitter is in
 > > the community repository (so basically almost official) whereas the
 > > language definitions are only on the AUR.  Maybe the NEWS entry should
 > > tell more clearly that tree-sitter needs to be system-installed and also
 > > the language definitions need to be grabbed somewhere.
 > 
 > Yeah there will be a NEWS entry for tree-sitter.
 > 
 > > 
 > > BTW, how can a user decide that tree-sitter modes should be used?  For
 > > example, when I open a json file I get js-json-mode, not json-ts-mode,
 > > which also works, so support is available.  Should user's augment
 > > auto-mode-alist?  Or is there some "enable TS whenever possible and the
 > > devs think its support is in a usable state for that language" toggle?
 > 
 > There is no global toggle, unfortunately. You could use auto-mode-alist or major-mode-remap-alist to enable tree-sitter modes, yes. I imagine there could be a third-party package that automatically enables tree-sitter for all supported nodes, maybe.
 > 
 > Yuan
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Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
♉ Id: kg:/m/0285kf1  🦮