Using Emacs 29+ Built‑in Tree‑sitter for Reliable Syntax Highlighting
Learn how to enable Emacs 29’s built‑in Tree‑sitter for accurate syntax highlighting and structural editing, with a Python example, setup steps, and notes on limitations.
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Learn how to enable Emacs 29’s built‑in Tree‑sitter for accurate syntax highlighting and structural editing, with a Python example, setup steps, and notes on limitations.
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I'm setting up Neorg for personal notes and task tracking in Neovim, and I want to understand the relationship between the plugin's concealer module and the Tree-sitter norg parser installed through nvim-treesitter. My understanding is that syntax highlighting, folding, and the concealer's styled rendering of markup all derive from the Tree-sitter parse tree
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