Feature Request: Update for tree-sitter parser

[kylebarron]

Atom 1.25 came out today, and with that is a new opt-in parser for syntax highlighting called tree-sitter.

Instead of doing regexes on each line of code, it actually parses the whole document, which means it's performant on long lines (which would fix #139), and it's also faster than the current method of syntax highlighting, which is helpful when working with large LaTeX documents.

This does mean creating a new file with rules that describe the language, according to this documentation.

I might be willing to take a stab at writing this (though I might not get too far since I'm LaTeX is rather complex).

[yudai-nkt]

Thanks for reaching out us, and we also recognize how powerful tree-sitter can be. That being said, each parser library is a Node.js library separated from Atom package of the associated language and yitzchak/tree-sitter-latex is being developed.

We have no plan to create our own parser, but will definitely consider adding tree-sitter support once tree-sitter-latex is published to npm.

[yitzchak]

@Aerijo @yudai-nkt I am currently a little busy with some other projects so if either of you is interested in picking up where I left off on yitzchak/tree-sitter-latex please let me know.