Re: treesit indentation "blinking"

[Daniel Colascione]

On March 22, 2023 20:00:23 Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mar 22, 2023, at 1:49 PM, Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> wrote:

Is there a general-purpose through which we can avoid line indentation

oscillating as the user types when the AST is temporarily invalid,

e.g. after '(' or '{'? I'm checking out the C++ tree-sitter mode, and

one of the more disconcerting things is the current line's indentation

changing rapidly as I type. Is it feasible to create ERROR recovery

indentation rules for every conceivable situation?

Yes, but in reality, I think all we need is a couple special case for the unmatched ( and {’s. Can you think of other cases of blinking indentations?

Yuan

But TS reacts to missing closing brackets by clarifying the whole nearby _expression_ as ERROR. It's not, as would be more useful, saying "here's a stray (, and everything else is normal and parsed as if that ( were absent"