tree-sitter grammar change/build reload?

[EmranMR]

Hi,

I am trying to develop a tree-sitter grammar in helix however the only way I can reflect the changes after hx --grammar build is by quitting helix and restarting it... Basically the :config-reload has no effect for parsing the target language, ie :tree-sitter-subtree will show the old information...

I am just double checking that there are no better alternatives? are there any better workflow? It is quite painful if not because:

• After each restart the buffer will be lost
• can not undo/redo
• The workflow will be pretty slow, due to none stop restarting (especially if trialing changes quickly)
  Thanks!

[the-mikedavis]

Parsers and queries are lazily loaded and only loaded once. There isn't an easy way to change this even if you want to modify the source locally. I would recommend relying more on tree-sitter's parsing and highlighting unit tests and using the playground tree-sitter playground for grammar development instead

[EmranMR]

Ah thanks good to know! Yea unfortunately I am trying to get the indents.scm working, which requires some fine tuning of the grammar as well. Otherwise I usually stick to the tree-sitter-cli!