Let's Write a Tree-Sitter Major Mode
www.masteringemacs.org
Creating a standard programming major mode presents significant challenges, with the intricate tasks of establishing proper indentation and font highlighting being among the two hardest things to get right. It's painstaking work, and it'll quickly descend into a brawl between the font lock engine and your desire for correctness. Tree-sitter makes writing many major modes a snap: here I demonstrate how to write a working indentation and font lock engine for HTML.
  • plugd
    3·
    2 years ago

    Reading Mickey’s stuff is always such a joy. Must remember to buy his book one of these days!

  • Tad Lispy@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’m working on a new major mode with Tree Sitter highlighting and articles by Mickey Petersen are incredibly useful.