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author | Triton171 | 2022-03-30 15:08:07 +0000 |
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committer | GitHub | 2022-03-30 15:08:07 +0000 |
commit | 58758fee610a3808dfaeafddd1b4b4242a7e42cd (patch) | |
tree | 1ca1bc05978270080693c56d6cfb3beb6dd86e1a /book/src/guides/indent.md | |
parent | c18de0e8f001041e234b2b9bb0f8fea122858ad3 (diff) |
Indentation rework (#1562)
* WIP: Rework indentation system
* Add ComplexNode for context-aware indentation (including a proof of concept for assignment statements in rust)
* Add switch statements to Go indents.toml (fixes the second half of issue #1523)
Remove commented-out code
* Migrate all existing indentation queries.
Add more options to ComplexNode and use them to improve C/C++ indentation.
* Add comments & replace Option<Vec<_>> with Vec<_>
* Add more detailed documentation for tree-sitter indentation
* Improve code style in indent.rs
* Use tree-sitter queries for indentation instead of TOML config.
Migrate existing indent queries.
* Add documentation for the new indent queries.
Change xtask docgen to look for indents.scm instead of indents.toml
* Improve code style in indent.rs.
Fix an issue with the rust indent query.
* Move indentation test sources to separate files.
Add `#not-kind-eq?`, `#same-line?` and `#not-same-line` custom predicates.
Improve the rust and c indent queries.
* Fix indent test.
Improve rust indent queries.
* Move indentation tests to integration test folder.
* Improve code style in indent.rs.
Reuse tree-sitter cursors for indentation queries.
* Migrate HCL indent query
* Replace custom loading in indent tests with a designated languages.toml
* Update indent query file name for --health command.
* Fix single-space formatting in indent queries.
* Add explanation for unwrapping.
Co-authored-by: Triton171 <triton0171@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/book/src/guides/indent.md b/book/src/guides/indent.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..235a30c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/book/src/guides/indent.md @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +# Adding Indent Queries + +Helix uses tree-sitter to correctly indent new lines. This requires +a tree-sitter grammar and an `indent.scm` query file placed in +`runtime/queries/{language}/indents.scm`. The indentation for a line +is calculated by traversing the syntax tree from the lowest node at the +beginning of the new line. Each of these nodes contributes to the total +indent when it is captured by the query (in what way depends on the name +of the capture). + +Note that it matters where these added indents begin. For example, +multiple indent level increases that start on the same line only increase +the total indent level by 1. + +## Scopes + +Added indents don't always apply to the whole node. For example, in most +cases when a node should be indented, we actually only want everything +except for its first line to be indented. For this, there are several +scopes (more scopes may be added in the future if required): + +- `all`: +This scope applies to the whole captured node. This is only different from +`tail` when the captured node is the first node on its line. + +- `tail`: +This scope applies to everything except for the first line of the +captured node. + +Every capture type has a default scope which should do the right thing +in most situations. When a different scope is required, this can be +changed by using a `#set!` declaration anywhere in the pattern: +```scm +(assignment_expression + right: (_) @indent + (#set! "scope" "all")) +``` + +## Capture Types + +- `@indent` (default scope `tail`): +Increase the indent level by 1. Multiple occurences in the same line +don't stack. If there is at least one `@indent` and one `@outdent` +capture on the same line, the indent level isn't changed at all. + +- `@outdent` (default scope `all`): +Decrease the indent level by 1. The same rules as for `@indent` apply. + +## Predicates + +In some cases, an S-expression cannot express exactly what pattern should be matched. +For that, tree-sitter allows for predicates to appear anywhere within a pattern, +similar to how `#set!` declarations work: +```scm +(some_kind + (child_kind) @indent + (#predicate? arg1 arg2 ...) +) +``` +The number of arguments depends on the predicate that's used. +Each argument is either a capture (`@name`) or a string (`"some string"`). +The following predicates are supported by tree-sitter: + +- `#eq?`/`#not-eq?`: +The first argument (a capture) must/must not be equal to the second argument +(a capture or a string). + +- `#match?`/`#not-match?`: +The first argument (a capture) must/must not match the regex given in the +second argument (a string). + +Additionally, we support some custom predicates for indent queries: + +- `#not-kind-eq?`: +The kind of the first argument (a capture) must not be equal to the second +argument (a string). + +- `#same-line?`/`#not-same-line?`: +The captures given by the 2 arguments must/must not start on the same line. |