Treesitter Basics and Installation

nvim-treesitter, very cool :)

#neovim #lua #programming #modding

[thomasgeorge]

Something: does anything

Teej: “this says HEY! …”

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Been using neovim for years, never thought I'd learn so much from this. Such a great series!

[mhr]

I love how tj intentionally slows down his pace to dumb things down :) thanks for all the great content

[sairaj]

these videos will massively increase the neovim nerds population

[JobinJacobKavalam]

You are incredible at explaining things ! Love it.

[eldamiano_com]

Great vid (btw), treesitter queries were exactly what I wanted to learn more about for a while now and I like how you explained them and showed their application.

I told myself that I won't reconfigure Neovim until doing a new one while learning NixOS, your videos have been giving me the urge to do it either way haha

[linkarzu]

Nice video, appreciate it TJ
Thanks for covering the basics for all us mortals

[demolazer]

In terms of errors all over code, my favourite feature of Neovim is that the LSP error messages only come up in normal mode. I can happily type away in insert mode without the distractions, as if I'm using basic vim, then see errors to fix when back in normal mode. It's so nice, VS Code irritated me by putting big ugly lines everywhere while I'm typing.

[asdfasdfasdf]

> The old vim way [for highlighting] is just regexes. All the way down. All the way down.

That's preposterous! Wow I didn't know this.Great video

[ashikurrahman]

Teej uses such a nice an easy way to explain things that everything looks easy and interesting. This is a great talent

[theblacktechexperience]

This was the first video I watch for 10 minutes and end more confused than when I started

[jmarcelomb]

I never comment on videos, but Tj, you are the best, thank you so much!!

[aslthiago]

downloaded all the videos, watching locally on VLC, but came here to press the like button and give this comment, thanks TJ!

[DEVDerr]

8:48 - Jeeez I needed that for a long time. Especially for minified bundled files. Thank you

[benyaminyakobi]

This one was really interesting, thanks TJ

[lifelover]

loving this series. At the root of the christmas tree, a star is sitting. (that's TJ)

[moussaadem]

09:18 what component was providing the syntax highlighting before you installed treesitter.nvim and how does it not clash with treesitter ?

[ranjithkumar-xtzw]

1:39 this is a personal attack lil bro

[rddavies]

Treesitter and LSP (well and Lua) really is the secret sauce that makes neovim neovim.

[ManiacalMobius]

Hey Teej, couple of questions from about 9:50 onwards:

1. Is the person writing the grammar for a language responsible for providing a highlights.scm? Or is that the responsibility of the author of a colorscheme?

2. If I were to write my own grammar, should I try to match the naming convention and structure found in other grammars? Or is that only really relevant for those things that start with the @ sign? Is there a specification for those or would I just use :InspectTree and :Telescope highlights and try to match what's already being used?

3. If the language I'm building parsing/highlighting for has a certain feature that isn't accounted for by a colorscheme I install, does that mean I as the grammar author have to make a new highlight group for that and link it to something the colorscheme does define? (And therefore an additional plugin with those highlighting rules is required to use the language?)

Basically, if you could shed some light onto what is expected to be provided by the grammar, by the nvim-treesitter plugin and by a colorscheme, that would be awesome. Thanks :)