Re: [SPAM UNSURE] Maybe we're taking a wrong approach towards tree-sitter

[Stephen Leake]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
>> Cc: Andrei Kuznetsov <r12451428287@163.com>,  manuel@ledu-giraud.fr,
>>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:12:56 -0700
>> 
>> > TS's code is written in plain C, and doesn't require any regeneration
>> > or source modifications.  Anything else is misunderstanding.
>> 
>> That's true for the common TS runtime, which implements the parser and
>> error recovery, but the code for each language, that builds the LR parse
>> table and some other data structures, is generated in C from a grammar
>> file written in javascript, and must be linked into Emacs somehow.
>
> That "linking" happens when Emacs is linked against the TS library,
> right?

I don't know what you mean by "the TS library".

I'm guessing you mean the tree-sitter runtime, in which case no, that
does not include any languages.

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-- Stephe