What's purpose of grammars and queries under runtime path? #4345
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Just curious about it. I'm not familiar with tree-sitter at all. |
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The objects under These are in the runtime directory and not compiled directly into Helix because they would bloat the Helix binary a lot and be immutable - you would need to recompile Helix in order to add new language support. Helix can work without these but all languages effectively become plaintext (other than LSP features). |
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The objects under
runtime/grammarsare compiled C/C++ tree-sitter parsers. Helix uses them to parse documents and then uses the tree-sitter queries underruntime/queriesto query the parsed syntax trees to perform syntax highlighting or determine textobjects or custom auto-indent behavior.These are in the runtime directory and not compiled directly into Helix because they would bloat the Helix binary a lot and be immutable - you would need to recompile Helix in order to add new language support.
Helix can work without these but all languages effectively become plaintext (other than LSP features).