tree-sitter-confindent#

Extremely basic tree-sitter grammar for the confindent configuration language. This grammar does not consider the fundamental point of confindent, namely indentation-sensitive nesting. It does distinguish between keys and values at a basic level, though, and should be sufficient for syntax highlighting.

Notes#

tree-sitter is rather hostile to indentation-sensitive (i.e. context-sensitive) grammars, such as confindent. If I were to add full parsing support, I apparently would have to write my own partial lexer in C. This does not especially appeal to me, but if you are interested, feel free to file a change request.

How to use#

To get syntax highlighting in the helix editor, clone this repository somewhere and use the provided example config in the helix subdirectory. Replace the example path with the path to this repository, and copy the config to your helix config folder (typically ./config/helix/). You may have to run hx --grammar fetch and/or hx --grammar build, which will need a C compiler. If you use nix, the devshell defined in the flake in this project should be sufficient.

Instead of cloning this repo, you could instead just use source.git and link to this git repository on the web.

At some point, I may make a vscode extension. Probably there already exists a tree-sitter compatible extension you could use. Maybe I'll make a TextMate grammar, as vscode's syntax highlighting API seems to prefer this.