HEEx is a templating engine on top of Elixir's EEx templating
language specific to HTML that is included in Phoenix.LiveView
(though I think the plan is to eventually include it in base
Phoenix). It's a superset of EEx with some additional features
like components and slots.
The injections don't work perfectly because the Elixir grammar is
newline sensitive (the _terminator rule). See
https://github.com/elixir-lang/tree-sitter-elixir/issues/24
for more information.
The new revision handles a case that I come across often: a stab
clause (i.e. '->') with an empty right hand side:
Enum.map(xs, fn x ->
end)
The old version would parse the "end" token as an error.
This is technically valid syntax but more importantly it comes up
very often when editing, and the old revision would flicker between
the keyword highlight and the warning highlight.
After the incremental parsing rewrite for injections (which was released
in 22.03 https://helix-editor.com/news/release-22-03-highlights/#incremental-injection-parsing-rewrite),
we can now do combined injections which lets us pull in some templating
grammars. The most notable of those is embedded-template - a pretty
straightforward grammar that covers ERB and EJS.
The grammar and highlights queries are shared between the two but they have
different injections.
It looks like a24fb17b2a (and
855e438f55) broke the typescript
highlights because typescript
; inherits: javascript
but it doesn't have those named nodes in its grammar.
So instead we can separate out JSX into its own language and copy
over everything from javascript and supplement it with the new
JSX highlights. Luckily there isn't too much duplication, just the
language configuration parts - we can re-use the parser with the
languages.toml `grammar` key and most of the queries with `inherits`.
news:
- tree-sitter-elixir now powers Elixir syntax highlighting on github.com
- GitHub now supports code-navigation for Elixir repos via
tree-sitter-elixir
changes:
- modules now use the `@module` highlight, which was added upstream to
tree-sitter
- it seems appropriate to use `@namespace` to follow helix convention
- added nullary range operator (e.g. `Enum.to_list(..) == []`), a new syntax
for elixir 1.14
- a fix for stab clause nodes mis-highlighting when the right hand side of
the stab clause contained multiple simple expressions
