Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust

Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by p-e-w on Monday October 10, 2022 @04:03AM (#33148954)

Reliable? I trust Tree-Sitter's grammars a hundred times more than the underspecified regex monstrosities that power highlighting in other editors.

Tree-Sitter grammars are unit tested, have usable primitives for precedence and associativity, and are generally far more predictable than previous highlighting systems.

Also, name a language for which there is no Tree-Sitter grammar yet. The only remaining ones are so obscure that the missing "fallback" is irrelevant for 99% of users.

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Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by BaculumMeumEst on Monday October 10, 2022 @04:28AM (#33149099)

Python, Janet, Haskell, and Hare were the filetypes I remember either being unsupported or not working well. I need to be able to depend on basic language support from my text editor, even when I work with niche languages.

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Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by WhyNotHugo on Monday October 10, 2022 @05:33AM (#33149459)

I've been using Python with tree-sitter on neovim for many months. It's great, and has a lot of improvements when compared with the old syntax system.

Re Hare: I haven't even set that one up. Setting up a new tree-sitter on neovim requires extra work for each tree-sitter, and that's definitely a flaw that needs to be addressed.

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Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by albertoCaroM on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @03:41PM (#33266991)

Is there Asciidoctor tree-sitter grammar? I can't find one.

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