Tree-Sitter For Dummies

Notes

• Video date Feb. 7, 2021
• Decent high level into to tree-sitter
• Not really necessary to watch if you read these notes
• It's from GitHub
• It's language agnostic
• You write a grammar for languages
• Does pretty well at parsing small incremental sections
• pretty good at not choking on intermediat things (e.g. when you're tying a string but haven't closed the quotes yet)
• There's a query language built in
• video shows a basic parsing example

• Command to turn it on is

  :TSBufEneable highlight

• There's a Tree-Sitter playground that can be useful for developing

  :TSPlaygroundToggle

• Can power code folding too
• Can be used to power selecitions like getting parents
• Tree-Sitter is also very fast
• Tree-Sitter tends to be faster than LSPs for some internal single file operations.