elisp-tree-sitter VS nvim-treesitter

Compare elisp-tree-sitter vs nvim-treesitter and see what are their differences.

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elisp-tree-sitter nvim-treesitter
21 300
803 9,426
0.7% 4.8%
6.3 9.9
15 days ago 5 days ago
Emacs Lisp Scheme
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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elisp-tree-sitter

Posts with mentions or reviews of elisp-tree-sitter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-28.
  • How to Get Started with Tree-Sitter
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 28 May 2023
    Look at the original integration project https://github.com/emacs-tree-sitter/elisp-tree-sitter, before it was done inside Emacs 29+.
  • function to mark all within brackets, quotes, etc
    1 project | /r/emacs | 14 Jan 2023
    When tree-sitter is available you may extend expand-region with this one one https://github.com/emacs-tree-sitter/elisp-tree-sitter/issues/20 Works very nice for me. But simple matching pairs should be handled well by expand-region alone
  • How to use Emacs 29 Tree-sitter?
    12 projects | /r/emacs | 3 Dec 2022
    That said, if you want a more complete experience with tree-sitter right now, there’s a 3rd party implementation with support for a lot more languages, and also automatically downloads all supported grammars. It’s available here: https://github.com/emacs-tree-sitter/elisp-tree-sitter
  • why is melpa still necessary for stuff that is built-in to emacs?
    1 project | /r/emacs | 24 Nov 2022
    Just like there are multiple LSP implementations for emacs (lsp-mode, eglot, lsp-bridge), there are multiple tree-sitter implementations. The one recently included in emacs was never a standalone package, I believe (correct me if that’s wrong), but was created with the purpose of being included in emacs. You will need melpa to download the linked elisp-tree-sitter package (https://github.com/emacs-tree-sitter/elisp-tree-sitter), but not the built in one.
  • tree-sitter has been merged into master
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 23 Nov 2022
    How am I going to even use the built-in one? I was using elisp-tree-sitter. I know I have to add grammar for different languages, but how? I have been searching for a while and still have no clue.
  • Ask HN: S/W development text editor have feature colorizing every iteration?
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2022
    from github README.rst "Emacs package that provides a standardized framework for manipulating and navigating your source code using tree sitter's concrete syntax tree " -> https://github.com/mickeynp/combobulate

    https://www.spacemacs.org/ with https://github.com/emacs-tree-sitter/elisp-tree-sitter then write a iterator/loop query for language(s) editing per https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/syntax-highlightin...

    tad less installation heavy (sorta) but also makes use of tree-sitter syntax queries : https://www.lunarvim.org (neovim with treesitter syntax)

    blockman usage examples: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5539gDeAdWqeXcczWuhnBA

    Alternative examples / takes (per user interface):

    ### embedding a block of source code in a document:

      ** carrotsearch.gethub.io/apidocs/code-blocks
  • regarding feature/tree-sitter branch
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 5 Sep 2022
    However, if you want to use tree-sitter today, there is the tree-sitter package which enables tree-sitter syntax highlighting in a number of popular major modes. I’ve been using it for about six months now in all major modes it supports.
  • how to configure doom emacs (generic emacs too) with a C project
    1 project | /r/emacs | 4 Sep 2022
    Tree Sitter and lsp-mode might be of help. Looks like both take a bit of work to get going. I have personally not used them, so try out which suits you and let us know how it went.
  • Commercial-Emacs
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jun 2022
    You can use tree-sitter already if you have dynamic module support: https://github.com/emacs-tree-sitter/elisp-tree-sitter
  • Are we living in the golden age of Emacs?
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 26 Apr 2022

nvim-treesitter

Posts with mentions or reviews of nvim-treesitter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-03.
  • JetBrains' unremovable AI assistant meets irresistible outcry
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Feb 2024
    I suggest looking for blog posts about this, you're gunnuh wanna pick out a plugin manager and stuff. It's kind of like a package manager for neovim. You can install everything manually but usually you manually install a plugin manager and it gives you commands to manage the rest of your plugins.

    These two plugins are the bare minimum in my view.

    https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter

    Treesitter gives you much better syntax highlighting based on a parser for a given language.

    https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig

    This plugin helps you connect to a given language LSP quickly with sensible defaults. You more or less pick your language from here and copy paste a snippet, and then install the relevant LSP:

    https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig/blob/master/doc/ser...

    For Python you'll want pylsp. For JavaScript it will depend on what frontend framework you're using, I probably can't help you there.

    pylsp itself takes some plugins and you'll probably want them. https://github.com/python-lsp/python-lsp-server

    Best of luck! Happy hacking.

  • Help needed with Treesitter sql injection
    1 project | /r/neovim | 7 Dec 2023
    It was changed in https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/commit/78b54eb
  • Do I need NeoVIM?
    11 projects | /r/neovim | 7 Dec 2023
    https://github.com/hrsh7th/nvim-cmp This is an autocompletion engine https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter This allows NeoVim to install parsing scripts so NeoVim can do things like code highlighting. https://github.com/williamboman/mason.nvim Not strictly necessary, but allows you to access a repo of LSP, install them, and configure them for without you actively messing about in config files. https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig Also not strictly necessary, but vastly simplifies LSP setup. https://github.com/williamboman/mason-lspconfig.nvim This lets the above two plugins talk to each other more easily.
  • Problem with highlighting when attempting to create own treesitter parser
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Dec 2023
  • neorg problem, all other plugins deactivate when added to init.lua
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 26 Nov 2023
    vim.opt.rtp:prepend(lazypath) require('lazy').setup({ { "nvim-neorg/neorg", build = ":Neorg sync-parsers", opts = { load = { ["core.defaults"] = {}, -- Loads default behaviour ["core.concealer"] = {}, -- Adds pretty icons to your documents ["core.dirman"] = { -- Manages Neorg workspaces config = { workspaces = { notes = "~/notes", }, defaultworkspace = "notes", }, }, }, }, dependencies = { { "nvim-lua/plenary.nvim", }, { -- YOU ALMOST CERTAINLY WANT A MORE ROBUST nvim-treesitter SETUP -- see https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter "nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter", opts = { auto_install = true, highlight = { enable = true, additional_vim_regex_highlighting = false, }, }, config = function(,opts) require('nvim-treesitter.configs').setup(opts) end }, { "folke/tokyonight.nvim", config=function(,) vim.cmd.colorscheme "tokyonight-storm" end,}, }, }, }) require 'plugins' ```
  • Getting Treesitter to work for Windows 10
    1 project | /r/neovim | 19 Nov 2023
    Change the compiler to use 'llvm' and install visual studio build tools command line stuff - at least that is what worked for me without problems. If you are using c++ then I would assume you have visual studio installed already. If you need more info follow the treesitter windows support
  • Just come back up out of the rabbit hole - TS unsets syntax variable by design!
    1 project | /r/neovim | 15 Aug 2023
    After a lot of time spent yesterday I took a fresh look today and then thought to myself - what if this is what TS does by design? A few clicks later and I found this https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/issues/1327
  • What is this color scheme
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 11 Jul 2023
  • nvim-treesitter erroring on Windows 11 Pro
    1 project | /r/neovim | 5 Jul 2023
    I've followed the official guide for nvim-treesitter support on Windows, but I'm having problems making it work. I keep getting a compilation error for any parser I try to install using TSInstall. If instead I use TSInstallSync I don't get errors but the parser is not correctly installed. My setup uses lazyvim and I installed LLVM using winget to have a C compiler.
  • Neovim can't find C compiler
    1 project | /r/neovim | 2 Jul 2023
    I have read that gcc in windows doesn't always provide the necessary support for treesitter. I have seen ppl prefer clang over gcc in Windows. Please see also Windows support in treesitter's repo. Unfortunately I cannot help further as I don't use Windows for coding, but hope you can deduce something to solve your problem from the above link (if you haven't already read through it).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing elisp-tree-sitter and nvim-treesitter you can also consider the following projects:

tree-sitter-go - Go grammar for tree-sitter

coc.nvim - Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers.

tree-sitter - An incremental parsing system for programming tools

nvim-lspconfig - Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP

typescript.el - TypeScript-support for Emacs

vim-polyglot - A solid language pack for Vim.

lsp-treemacs - lsp-mode :heart: treemacs

vim-python-pep8-indent - A nicer Python indentation style for vim.

tree-sitter-ruby - Ruby grammar for tree-sitter

packer.nvim - A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim. Uses native packages, supports Luarocks dependencies, written in Lua, allows for expressive config

emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs