tree-sitter/highlight/README.md
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Tree-sitter Highlight
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### Usage
Compile some languages into your app, and declare them:
```rust
extern "C" tree_sitter_html();
extern "C" tree_sitter_javascript();
```
Create a highlighter. You only need one of these:
```rust
use tree_sitter_highlight::Highlighter;
let highlighter = Highlighter::new(
[
"attribute",
"constant",
"function.builtin",
"function",
"keyword",
"operator",
"property",
"punctuation",
"punctuation.bracket",
"punctuation.delimiter",
"string",
"string.special",
"tag",
"type",
"type.builtin",
"variable",
"variable.builtin",
"variable.parameter",
]
.iter()
.cloned()
.map(String::from)
.collect()
);
```
Create a highlight context. You need one of these for each thread that you're using for syntax highlighting:
```rust
use tree_sitter_highlight::HighlightContext;
let context = HighlightContext::new();
```
Load some highlighting queries from the `queries` directory of some language repositories:
```rust
let html_language = unsafe { tree_sitter_html() };
let javascript_language = unsafe { tree_sitter_javascript() };
let html_config = highlighter.load_configuration(
html_language,
&fs::read_to_string("./tree-sitter-html/queries/highlights.scm").unwrap(),
&fs::read_to_string("./tree-sitter-html/queries/injections.scm").unwrap(),
"",
);
let javascript_config = highlighter.load_configuration(
javascript_language,
&fs::read_to_string("./tree-sitter-javascript/queries/highlights.scm").unwrap(),
&fs::read_to_string("./tree-sitter-javascript/queries/injections.scm").unwrap(),
&fs::read_to_string("./tree-sitter-javascript/queries/locals.scm").unwrap(),
);
```
Highlight some code:
```rust
use tree_sitter_highlight::HighlightEvent;
let highlights = highlighter.highlight(
&mut context,
javascript_config,
b"const x = new Y();",
None,
&|_| None
).unwrap();
for event in highlights {
match event? {
HighlightEvent::Source(s) {
eprintln!("source: {:?}", s);
},
HighlightEvent::HighlightStart(s) {
eprintln!("highlight style started: {:?}", s);
},
HighlightEvent::HighlightEnd(s) {
eprintln!("highlight style ended: {:?}", s);
},
}
}
```
The last parameter to `highlight` is a *language injection* callback. This allows other languages to be retrieved when Tree-sitter detects an embedded document (for example, a piece of JavaScript code inside of a `script` tag within HTML).