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= Structural selections for Kakoune
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kak-tree is a plugin for Kakoune which enables selection of syntax tree nodes. Parsing is performed with https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter[tree-sitter].
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Status: proof of concept, interface and overall development direction could change drastically based on feedback.
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== Installation
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Replace `"rust javascript"` with a list of languages you need. Or use `all` to build all supported
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languages. Note that `all` build takes a long time, and resulting binary is quite fat which could
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have a negative impact on responsiveness.
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----
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git clone --recurse-submodules
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cargo install --path . --force --features "rust javascript"
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cp rc/tree.kak ~/.config/kak/autoload/
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----
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Look at `Cargo.toml` for a full list of supported languages.
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It is possible to check programmaticaly if kak-tree was built with support for a given filetype:
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----
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kak-tree --do-you-understand rust
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----
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If language is supported then exit code is 0 otherwise it's non-zero (1 at the moment, but it is not
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guaranteed in future).
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== Usage
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Tree-sitter parsers produce very detailed syntax tree, many elements of which are not interesting
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for day-to-day selection purposes. kak-tree introduces the concept of a _visible_ node. Node is
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_visible_ when:
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. Node is named in the tree-sitter grammar for the given language (as opposed to anonymous nodes,
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http://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/using-parsers#named-vs-anonymous-nodes[more]).
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. Either there is no white/blacklist for the given filetype or node kind is whitelisted or not
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blacklisted. See <<Configuration>> for details about white/blacklisting.
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Most of the kak-tree commands operate on _visible_ nodes and skip not _visible_ ones.
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[cols=2*]
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|===
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| tree-select-parent-node [<KIND>]
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| Select the closest visible ancestor or ancestor of KIND when provided.
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| tree-select-next-node [<KIND>]
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| Select the closest visible next sibling or next sibling of KIND when provided.
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| tree-select-previous-node [<KIND>]
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| Select the closest visible previous sibling or previous sibling of KIND when provided.
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| tree-select-children [<KIND>]
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| Select all immediate visible children or all descendants matching KIND when provided.
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| tree-select-first-child [<KIND>]
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| Select the first immediate visible children or the first descendant matching KIND when provided.
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| tree-node-sexp
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| Show info box with a syntax tree of the main selection parent.
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|===
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== Configuration
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kak-tree supports configuration via a configuration file. As for now there is no default path to
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load the configuration file, and it must be given using CLI option `--config` or `-c` for short:
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set global tree_cmd 'kak-tree -c /path/to/kak-tree.toml'
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----
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=== Filetype configuration
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Configuration for specific filetypes should be provided like this:
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[filetype.rust]
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blacklist = ["identifier", "scoped_identifier", "string_literal"]
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whitelist = ["function_item"]
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group.identifier = ["identifier", "scoped_identifier"]
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group.fn = ["function_item"]
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[filetype.javascript]
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group.fn = ["function", "arrow_function"]
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----
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Configuration under the `[filetype.default]` key will be used for all filetypes without
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configuration. Specific filetype configuration _doesn't_ extend default configuration but rather
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overwrites it.
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==== White/blacklisting
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If `whitelist` array is provided then kak-tree selection will skip nodes which kinds are not whitelisted.
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If `blacklist` array is provided then kak-tree selection will skip nodes which kinds are blacklisted.
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NOTE: `whitelist` takes precedence over `blacklist`. In the Rust example above kak-tree would expand
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selection up to the function definition, ignoring other node kinds.
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NOTE: `tree-node-sexp` command is useful for exploring node kinds which appear in the specific code.
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Whitelisting or blacklisting node kinds could be tedious as tree-sitter parsers define many of them,
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but it also could be rewarding as you will be able to quickly modify selection in scopes which
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matter for you with fewer keystrokes.
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==== Kind groups
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Groups of node kinds serve a two-fold purpose:
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. Groups allow matching functionally similar node kinds (i.e. `identifier` and `scoped_identifier`
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in Rust) by a single query.
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. Groups allow matching functionally similar nodes across filetypes (i.e. `function_item` in Rust
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and `function` in JavaScript) as tree-sitter parsers don't use uniform node kind names.
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NOTE: `whitelist` and `blacklist` options doesn't expand groups yet.
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== License
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For kak-tree see UNLICENSE file. For tree-sitter and its parsers look at their repositories.
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