Mastering Emacs: Let's Write a Tree-Sitter Major Mode

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Creating a standard programming major mode presents significant challenges, with the intricate tasks of establishing proper indentation and font highlighting being among the two hardest things to get right. It's painstaking work, and it'll quickly descend into a brawl between the font lock engine an...

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Let's Write a Tree-Sitter Major Mode

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Let's write a treesitter major mode for Emacs

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Let's write a treesitter major mode for Emacs

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Reading Mickey's stuff is always such a joy. Must remember to buy his book one of these days!
I'm working on a new major mode with Tree Sitter highlighting and articles by Mickey Petersen are incredibly useful.