Re: [SPAM UNSURE] Maybe we're taking a wrong approach towards tree-sitter

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
> Cc: r12451428287@163.com,  manuel@ledu-giraud.fr,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 05:12:54 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
> >> Cc: Andrei Kuznetsov <r12451428287@163.com>,  manuel@ledu-giraud.fr,
> >>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:12:56 -0700
> >> 
> >> > TS's code is written in plain C, and doesn't require any regeneration
> >> > or source modifications.  Anything else is misunderstanding.
> >> 
> >> That's true for the common TS runtime, which implements the parser and
> >> error recovery, but the code for each language, that builds the LR parse
> >> table and some other data structures, is generated in C from a grammar
> >> file written in javascript, and must be linked into Emacs somehow.
> >
> > That "linking" happens when Emacs is linked against the TS library,
> > right?
> 
> I don't know what you mean by "the TS library".

I mean libtree-sitter.a produced by building the library.

> I'm guessing you mean the tree-sitter runtime, in which case no, that
> does not include any languages.

"Include" in what sense?