Syntax highlighting should be available for general assembly files (.S)

[caoimhebyrne]

Right now, they look pretty ugly, just from a quick search on Google, I've found tree-sitter-asm, which supports a generic asm syntax. I'm not sure if we can configure Helix to use it, but it would also be nice to have built-in support for this.

[caoimhebyrne]

I tried using tree-sitter-asm myself, but it doesn't work.

[[language]]
name = "asm"
scope = "source.asm"
file-types = ["S", "s"]
roots = []
comment-token = "//"

[[grammar]]
name = "asm"
source = { git = "https://github.com/rush-rs/tree-sitter-asm", rev = "36dc26acc7818920de2e103e20a9f42358caf926" }

Also ran:

❯ hx --grammar fetch
Fetching 7 grammars
6 up to date git grammars
1 updated grammars
	asm now on 36dc26acc7818920de2e103e20a9f42358caf926

❯ hx --grammar build
Building 7 grammars
7 grammars built now
	["asm", "bash", "c", "cpp", "javascript", "tsx", "typescript"]

[kirawi]

You need queries as well: https://docs.helix-editor.com/guides/adding_languages.html#queries

[caoimhebyrne]

@kirawi, I tried this but once again, I don't think it's working.

[the-mikedavis]

Does hx --health asm show a checkmark in the highlighting column? Also check the log file for errors: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/FAQ#access-the-log-file