Recently I've been pulling a lot of grammars into GitHub's highlighting backend,
replacing legacy language support with tree-sitter highlighting queries.
Our backend systems have a standard set of highlight captures we expect, very
similar to the standard tagging captures we expect. Though end-user applications
are free to choose whatever tagging nomenclature they want, I think it's nice to
include a checking stage that will help us ensure that we know whether a capture
might be recognized or not. It will also help us figure out where we need to
expand our standard set of captures (see #1539).
Changed the build-wasm command to always use forward slashes in paths,
since using Windows style paths breaks if the build is run with Docker.
Fixes#532
The `Emoji` property alias is already present, but the actual property
is not available since it lives in a new file. This adds that file to
the `generate-unicode-categories-json`.
The `emoji-data` file follows the same format as the ones we already
consume in `generate-unicode-categories-json`, so adding emoji support
is fairly easy. his, grammars would need to hard-code a set of
unicode ranges in their own regex. The Javascript library `emoji-regex`
cannot be used because of #451.
For unclear reasons, the characters #, *, and 0-9 are marked as
`Emoji=Yes` by `emoji-data.txt`. Because of this, a grammar that wishes
to use emojis is likely to want to exclude those characters. For that
reason, this change also adds support for binary operations in regexes,
e.g. `[\p{Emoji}&&[^#*0-9]]`.
Lastly (and perhaps controversially), this change introduces new
variables available at grammar compile time, for the major, minor, and
patch versions of the tree-sitter CLI used to compile the grammar. This
will allow grammars to conditionally adopt these new regex features
while remaining backward compatible with older versions of the CLI.
Without this part of the change, grammar authors who do not precompile
and check-in their `grammar.json` would need to wait for downstream
systems to adopt a newer tree-sitter CLI version before they could begin
to use these features.
