I am working to try get the hide show working for tree sitter, however one
thing that is missing in treesit is sexp navigation functions, hideshow
requires sexp function.

On Fri, 6 Sept 2024 at 03:04, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> wrote:

> >>>>> Are there any plans to add treesitter support for hideshow, it seems
> easy
> >>>>> enough to do and also very helpful, especially for langs that don't
> >>>>> excessively use parens, such as python
> >>>>
> >>>> Indeed, it's easy to do this.  You just need to override
> >>>> hs-find-block-beginning-func, hs-find-next-block-func, etc.
> >>>> with treesit functions like 'treesit-outline-search'.
> >>>
> >>> Ah I see, then I think treesit.el should contain code for this, because
> >>> this seems extremely useful task that would not make sense if each tree
> >>> sitter based major mode was to implement this separately
> >>
> >> Or hideshow code for treesit could be in hideshow.el as well.
> >> The reason why 'treesit-outline-search' was added to treesit.el
> >> was because treesit.el already contained imenu support.  But
> >> imenu support could be in imenu.el as well.
> >
> > Is there a preferred way to handle this treesit wise. I know some
> packages
> > (eg imenu) require major modes to define their support for it, but others
> > like ispell do it themselves. I personally thing the latter would be
> better
> > in this case.
>
> I looked at hideshow.el and found such a list:
>
> (defvar hs-special-modes-alist
>   (mapcar #'purecopy
>   '((c-mode "{" "}" "/[*/]" nil nil)
>     (c-ts-mode "{" "}" "/[*/]" nil nil)
>     (c++-mode "{" "}" "/[*/]" nil nil)
>     (c++-ts-mode "{" "}" "/[*/]" nil nil)
>     (bibtex-mode ("@\\S(*\\(\\s(\\)" 1))
>     (java-mode "{" "}" "/[*/]" nil nil)
>     (java-ts-mode "{" "}" "/[*/]" nil nil)
>     (js-mode "{" "}" "/[*/]" nil)
>     (js-ts-mode "{" "}" "/[*/]" nil)
>     (lua-ts-mode "{\\|\\[\\[" "}\\|\\]\\]" "--" nil)
>     (mhtml-mode "{\\|<[^/>]*?" "}\\|</[^/>]*[^/]>" "<!--" mhtml-forward
> nil)
>
> But this is useless for tree-sitter.
>
> Line-oriented treesit-outline-search relied on
> treesit-simple-imenu-settings
> that defines header lines for imenu.  And every ts-mode sets own value of
> treesit-simple-imenu-settings.  But this can't be used for hideshow.
>
> So whoever will implement hideshow support for treesitter
> will need to design a setting like buffer-local
> treesit-simple-imenu-settings for ts-modes.
>