tree-sitter-c VS nvim-treesitter

(use-package treesit :ensure nil :custom ;; Some stuff taken from here: https://robbmann.io/posts/emacs-treesit-auto/ (treesit-extra-load-path '("/usr/lib64/")) (treesit-language-source-alist '((bash . ("https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-bash")) (c . ("https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-c")) (c++ . ("https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-cpp")) (csharp . ("https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-c-sharp")) (css . ("https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-css")) (elixir ("https://github.com/elixir-lang/tree-sitter-elixir")) (html . ("https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-html")) (java . ("https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-java")) (javascript . ("https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-javascript")) (json . ("https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-json")) (lua . ("https://github.com/Azganoth/tree-sitter-lua")) (makefile . ("https://github.com/alemuller/tree-sitter-make")) (org . ("https://github.com/milisims/tree-sitter-org")) (python . ("https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-python")) (tsx . ("https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-typescript" "master" "tsx/src")) (typescript . ("https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-typescript" "master" "typescript/src")) (ruby . ("https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-ruby")) (rust . ("https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-rust")) (sql . ("https://github.com/m-novikov/tree-sitter-sql")) (toml . ("https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-toml")) (yaml . ("https://github.com/ikatyang/tree-sitter-yaml")))) (major-mode-remap-alist '((c-mode . c-ts-mode) (c++-mode . c++-ts-mode) (csharp-mode . csharp-ts-mode) (css-mode . css-ts-mode) (html-mode . html-ts-mode) (java-mode . java-ts-mode) (js-mode . js-ts-mode) (json-mode . json-ts-mode) (makefile-mode . makefile-ts-mode) ;; (org-mode . org-ts-mode) ;; not mature yet (python-mode . python-ts-mode) (typescript-mode . typescript-ts-mode) (ruby-mode . ruby-ts-mode) (rust-mode . rust-ts-mode) (toml-mode . toml-ts-mode) (yaml-mode . yaml-ts-mode))) (treesit-auto-fallback-alist '((toml-ts-mode . conf-toml-mode) (typescript-ts-mode . nil) (tsx-ts-mode . nil))) (treesit-font-lock-settings t) (treesit-simple-indent t) (treesit-defun-type-regexp t)) (use-package treesit-auto :demand t :config (setq treesit-auto-install t) (global-treesit-auto-mode))

The feature isn't working well yet on C and C++. If I recall correctly it's based on Tree-Sitter[1] parsing, and there are still too many bugs in corresponding grammars - tree-sitter-c[2] and tree-sitter-cpp[3]. Hopefully, it will be greatly improved in the future as the share of the existing and newly written code in C and C++ is quite significant.

[1] https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/

[2] https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-c/issues

[3] https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-cpp/issues

[[language]] name = "c" scope = "source.c" injection-regex = "c" file-types = ["c"] # TODO: ["h"] roots = [] comment-token = "//" language-server = { command = "clangd" } indent = { tab-width = 8, unit = " " } [language.debugger] name = "lldb-vscode" transport = "stdio" command = "lldb-vscode" [[language.debugger.templates]] name = "binary" request = "launch" completion = [ { name = "binary", completion = "filename" } ] args = { console = "internalConsole", program = "{0}" } [[language.debugger.templates]] name = "attach" request = "attach" completion = [ "pid" ] args = { console = "internalConsole", pid = "{0}" } [[language.debugger.templates]] name = "gdbserver attach" request = "attach" completion = [ { name = "lldb connect url", default = "connect://localhost:3333" }, { name = "file", completion = "filename" }, "pid" ] args = { console = "internalConsole", attachCommands = [ "platform select remote-gdb-server", "platform connect {0}", "file {1}", "attach {2}" ] } [[grammar]] name = "c" source = { git = "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-c", rev = "7175a6dd5fc1cee660dce6fe23f6043d75af424a" }

There's no way to highlight format specs currently, since the treesitter C grammar doesn't specify them. You could open an issue on the tree-sitter-c repo.

[1] https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-c/issues/51

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.

It was changed in https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/commit/78b54eb

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.

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' ```

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

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

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.

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).