🌲 Treesitter for Neovim

A better syntax highlighter for Neovim

Tree-sitter is a parser generator tool and an incremental parsing library. It can build a concrete syntax tree for a source file and efficiently update the syntax tree as the source file is edited. Tree-sitter aims to be:

• General enough to parse any programming language
• Fast enough to parse on every keystroke in a text editor
• Robust enough to provide useful results even in the presence of syntax errors
• Dependency-free so that the runtime library (which is written in pure C) can be embedded in any application

Requirements

• Neovim ≥ 0.8

Installation

• Reference github repository in plugins.lua

return {

    -- Alpha (Dashboard)
    {
        "goolord/alpha-nvim",
        lazy = true,
    },

    -- Bufferline
    {
        'akinsho/bufferline.nvim',
        dependencies = {
            'nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons'
        },
    },

    -- Colorscheme
    {
        'folke/tokyonight.nvim',
    },

    -- Hop (Better Navigation)
    {
        "phaazon/hop.nvim",
        lazy = true,
    },


    -- Lualine
    {
        'nvim-lualine/lualine.nvim',
        dependencies = {
            'nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons'
        },
    },

    -- Nvimtree (File Explorer)
    {
        'nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua',
        lazy = true,
        dependencies = {
            'nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons',
        },
    },

    -- Telescope (Fuzzy Finder)
    {
        'nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim',
        lazy = true,
        dependencies = {
            {'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim'},
        }
    },


    -- Treesitter
    -- Added this plugin to our initial config
    {
        "nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter",
    },

    -- Which-key
    {
        'folke/which-key.nvim',
        lazy = true,
    },

}

• Summon Lazy(Package Manager) using Space + p command in Normal mode to install Treesitter. Use shift + i to install the plugin.

Configuration

• Open File Explorer using Space + e then Create a new file treesitter-config.lua using a in your lua directory and add this code.

-- treesitter-config.lua

local configs = require("nvim-treesitter.configs")
configs.setup {
  -- Add a language of your choice
  ensure_installed = {"cpp", "python", "lua", "java", "javascript", },
  sync_install = false,
  ignore_install = { "" }, -- List of parsers to ignore installing
  highlight = {
    enable = true, -- false will disable the whole extension
    disable = { "" }, -- list of language that will be disabled
    additional_vim_regex_highlighting = true,

  },
  indent = { enable = true, disable = { "yaml" } },
  rainbow = {
    enable = true,
    -- disable = { "jsx", "cpp" }, list of languages you want to disable the plugin for
    extended_mode = true, -- Also highlight non-bracket delimiters like html tags, boolean or table: lang -> boolean
    max_file_lines = nil, -- Do not enable for files with more than n lines, int
    -- colors = {}, -- table of hex strings
    -- termcolors = {} -- table of colour name strings
  }
}

• Make sure to include the programming language of your choice in a string inside ensure_installed variable so that Treesitter can parse that language.
• Update main configuration

-- init.lua

require "options"
require "keymaps"
require "lazy-config"
require "alpha-config"
require "bufferline-config"
require "hop-config"
require "nvim-tree-config"
require "lualine-config"
require "telescope-config"
require "treesitter-config" -- Added this line to initial file
require "whichkey"

• Treesitter Language Parsers will be installed when Neovim is restarted.

Neovim From Scratch

• If you want a complete installation and configuration of Neovim from Scratch, then you can head over to my NEOVIM SERIES.
• This series is updated regularly, with updates and inclusion of newer plugins which improves the wholesome IDE experience of Neovim.