Tree-sitter merged into Emacs master (lists.gnu.org)

11 points by yewenjie 3y ago ↗ HN

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To save others from needing to research what this is:

tree-sitter is an Emacs binding for Tree-sitter, an incremental parsing system.

It aims to be the foundation for a new breed of Emacs packages that understand code structurally.

But have they made Emacs multithreaded yet?

Have you seriously tried using emacs yet? I always find this sort of text editor comparisons pointless.

And anyway, emacs is hardly a "text editor". It's a text manipulation engine, likely the only one.

I have. Most long running commands of any kind blocks until it is done.

What sort of long-running commands are you using?

There's an `async` call for system functions in elisp.

If you're wondering what Tree-Sitter is and why Emacs would want it, I wrote about it a while ago:

Awesome! Pretty soon vanilla emacs will be more than enough, won't need melpa packages.

dang 2y ago ↗