Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
A lot of languages include other languages in their grammars, which tree-sitter supports somewhat (one can create a leaf that contains the code in the other language) and which some people use to provide fancy syntax highlighting for instance. I would want Topiary to support formatting such languages.
Some examples or use cases:
A personal project of mine would be to write a formatter for LilyPond, but LilyPond files regularly include some Guile code and I would want to support that too.
The OCaml ecosystem contains some other languages, namely OCamlLex, OCamlYacc and Menhir. Those languages are not super complicated but they involve chunks of OCaml that need formatting as well.
Other examples that don't concern me right now but might still matter to others: Markdown, Typst (probably?), languages that use fancy comments (see eg. the link above), web files that can include PHP, HTML, CSS, JS, SQL all in one file.
Additional context
There is currently no formatter for OCamlLex, OCamlYacc and Menhir. ocp-indent has simple support for them. OCamlFormat does not. I think it would be a very good way to distinguish ourselves from OCamlFormat and show the power of tree-sitter and Topiary. I think this would convince quite a few people.
ErinvanderVeen
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1 year ago
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
A lot of languages include other languages in their grammars, which tree-sitter supports somewhat (one can create a leaf that contains the code in the other language) and which some people use to provide fancy syntax highlighting for instance. I would want Topiary to support formatting such languages.
Some examples or use cases:
A personal project of mine would be to write a formatter for LilyPond, but LilyPond files regularly include some Guile code and I would want to support that too.
The OCaml ecosystem contains some other languages, namely OCamlLex, OCamlYacc and Menhir. Those languages are not super complicated but they involve chunks of OCaml that need formatting as well.
Other examples that don't concern me right now but might still matter to others: Markdown, Typst (probably?), languages that use fancy comments (see eg. the link above), web files that can include PHP, HTML, CSS, JS, SQL all in one file.
Additional context
There is currently no formatter for OCamlLex, OCamlYacc and Menhir.
ocp-indenthas simple support for them. OCamlFormat does not. I think it would be a very good way to distinguish ourselves from OCamlFormat and show the power of tree-sitter and Topiary. I think this would convince quite a few people.