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From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
To: 64017@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Basil Contovounesios <contovob@tcd.ie>, Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#64017: Wrong conversion from Emacs to Tree-sitter S-expression syntax
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:14:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43D49A55-2C3F-4EA4-8DF8-0CD9A516573E@gmail.com> (raw)

`treesit-pattern-expand` converts a query pattern into tree-sitter S-expression syntax, as a string. The conversion mainly converts certain keywords but the main problem is that it prints strings in Emacs syntax which differs from that of tree-sitter.

As a consequence, :match regexps cannot contain newlines:

(treesit-query-capture
 'java
 '(((identifier) @font-lock-constant-face
    (:match "hello\n" @font-lock-constant-face))))

signals a syntax error.

As far as I can tell the tree-sitter string syntax allows for the escape sequences:

\n = LF
\r = CR
\t = TAB
\0 = NUL  (only a single 0 -- no octal escapes!)
\X = the character X itself

Unescape newlines result in a syntax error as seen in the example above. NULs don't seem to go well either.

At the very least, the conversion should avoid literal newlines and NULs in the result (and probably CR and TAB). This cannot be done with a straight prin1-to-string.

(By the way, why is the conversion written in C? Was Lisp too slow?)

Ideally we should not need to expose the tree-sitter s-exp query syntax at all. Surely Emacs s-exps should be preferable in every case?






             reply	other threads:[~2023-06-12 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-12 14:14 Mattias Engdegård [this message]
     [not found] ` <handler.64017.B.168657924917612.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2023-06-15 10:45   ` bug#64017: Wrong conversion from Emacs to Tree-sitter S-expression syntax Mattias Engdegård
2023-06-15 22:13     ` Yuan Fu
2023-06-15 22:08 ` Yuan Fu
2023-06-16 11:25   ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-06-16 17:02     ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-06-16 17:33       ` Basil Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-06-17 10:47         ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-06-17 12:57           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-17 13:30             ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-06-17 22:55               ` Yuan Fu
2023-06-18  8:47                 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-06-17 23:02     ` Yuan Fu

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