things.el VS evil-textobj-tree-sitter

The current state of things is pretty underwhelming and convoluted. In 2018 I designed a system on top of thingatpt that was not married to any parser (can use regexps or use tree-sitter or anything else to build things) or to any editing style (modal vs. non-modal). I'll probably never complete it due to a lack of time/interest, but it still seems to me that what's needed is something like this, a library in the middle that could be used for any package like this. Not sure why no one else seems to see how good thingatpt could be.

things.el: https://github.com/noctuid/things.el

I've planned to use treesitter in things.el for a long time, but another package will likely become useful long before I have time to do this.

I've designed my own text object/motion system that I hope will eventually bring more "useful" composability to any Emacs user that wants it (see things), but right the implementation is buggy and incomplete.

You may be aware but the author of TFA also has a tree-sitter based minor mode called Combobulate for exactly that:

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/combobulate-structure...

There is also evil-textobj-tree-sitter for tree-sitter based text objects for Evil mode:

https://github.com/meain/evil-textobj-tree-sitter

here are the structural editing tools, and they're great - https://github.com/meain/evil-textobj-tree-sitter

evil-mode users already have options, and there seems to be a new package with general applicability too.

evil-textobj-tree-sitter: provides new textobjects to evil-mode, thanks to treesitter

I have a package which lets you target language level constructs like functions, classes, conditionals etc for text objects using tree-sitter. This is specific to evil mode as of now, though making it work outside evil would not be that big an effort. https://github.com/meain/evil-textobj-tree-sitter

Other than combobulate, these packages also use tree-sitter for changing code (not just highlighting): * https://codeberg.org/FelipeLema/tree-sitter-indent.el * https://github.com/meain/evil-textobj-tree-sitter

this might interest you: https://github.com/meain/evil-textobj-tree-sitter

not lsp, treesitter is the way to go. lsp does not provide AST ATM. There is already https://github.com/meain/evil-textobj-tree-sitter . As a side note, smartparens work on non-lispy code. I am very happy with using in combination with evil-cleverparens.