terror / terror/treesitter.run
Show incremental parsing changes
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area: highlighting
area: parser
enhancement
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 3
- Forks
- 0
- Avg merge
- 6h 47m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 184
Description
Reuse prior trees and highlight changed ranges after edits.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the web playground entry point that handles edits and Tree-sitter parsing. Trace how the current tree is replaced after an edit, then determine how changed ranges could be exposed and highlighted. Done means edits reuse prior trees and visibly highlight the affected ranges.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100