tree-sitter-markdown VS nvim-treesitter

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

tree-sitter-markdown

Markdown grammar for tree-sitter (by tree-sitter-grammars)

nvim-treesitter

Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer (by nvim-treesitter)
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tree-sitter-markdown

Posts with mentions or reviews of tree-sitter-markdown. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-21.
  • How to pass environment variables to treesitter grammar
    1 project | /r/NixOS | 27 Jul 2023
    The markdown treesitter grammar accepts environment variables when building to tweak it's behavior. How can I pass these? Currently I am using
  • Project idea: port markdownlint to Rust
    9 projects | /r/rust | 21 Apr 2023
    given the existence of tree sitter grammar for markdown, I think it’d be fairly easy to implement the linter on top of it.
  • New(ish) plugin: ts-vimdoc.nvim, generate vimdoc from your README.md for your plugin using tree-sitter
    6 projects | /r/neovim | 1 Jul 2022
    The original repo wasn't working since the move from ikatyang/tree-sitter-markdown to the new markdown parser by /u/deinemade/ MDeiml/tree-sitter-markdown so I kept maintaining it as a fork with the absolute basics just so I could generate the vimdoc for fzf-lua.
  • Any Markdown plugin for Neovim that you recommend?
    9 projects | /r/neovim | 24 Jun 2022
    The new parser https://github.com/MDeiml/tree-sitter-markdown is more stable. And should be installed by default, if not just run :TSInstall markdown
  • Tree-sitter for markdown
    11 projects | /r/neovim | 14 Dec 2021
    Looks like this scanner uses more of the parser generator features of tree-sitter: grammar.json is almost 11k lines of "definitely not easy to maintain (IMHO)" json. Where as ikatyang's version is a hand written parser. tree-sitter is not great for languages that are not deterministic. The benefits for ikatyang is that it is probably easier to maintain, the drawbacks are it can definitely crash neovim (sadly). For these types of syntax, a parser definitely needs to support look ahead and look behind, which tree-sitter does not support. This is just my not-so-computer-science-y theory.
  • nvim-treesitter for markdown
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 26 Nov 2021
  • Comment.nvim <3 Treesitter and some new [chef kiss] stuff
    1 project | /r/neovim | 24 Nov 2021
    There have been big problems with treesitter Markdown, but the good news is that a brand new version is being worked on and looks like it is going to be awesome! https://github.com/MDeiml/tree-sitter-markdown

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 tree-sitter-markdown and nvim-treesitter you can also consider the following projects:

vim-pandoc-syntax - pandoc markdown syntax, to be installed alongside vim-pandoc

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

mkdnflow.nvim - Fluent navigation and management of markdown notebooks

nvim-lspconfig - Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP

marksman - Write Markdown with code assist and intelligence in the comfort of your favourite editor.

vim-polyglot - A solid language pack for Vim.

nvim - 🍨 Soothing pastel theme for (Neo)vim

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

vimtex - VimTeX: A modern Vim and neovim filetype plugin for LaTeX files.

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

vim-markdown - Markdown Vim Mode

tree-sitter - An incremental parsing system for programming tools