Neovim - Treesitter Syntax Highlighting

[@ShivanS]

Excellent tutorial series. This got me up and running with neovim fast! Sadly 3:53, `ensure_installed = "maintained"` got deprecated (March 2022) and it has to be set to `"all"`, with the unmaintained language and formats added to `ignore_install`. Hopefully, this helps anyone who is stuck!

[@JeremyIglehart]

This should get pinned! Thanks for the help Shivan!

[@ShivanS]

@@JeremyIglehart no worries. enjoy neovim!

[@andrescondezomonge5198]

Thanks for the advice!!!

[@vaisakh_km]

really thanks

[@petrpechkurov3095]

Thank you! Also we can set it to the list of required languages e.g. { "typescript", "javascript" }

[@hamm8934]

Sometimes it really feels like the vim community is finding reasons to not get actual work done lol it’s 2022 and we’re still excited about syntax highlighting

[@mndtr0]

Imo nvim with tree-sitter has best syntax hightlighting

[@ernststravoblofeld]

Maybe we've been getting actual work done instead of looking at pretty colors all that time.

[@KyleSmithNH]

You can use the '=' motion to reformat a file, presumably you have the lua filetype baked in so `=G` would have fixed all that indentation for you.

[@filipeteixeira7839]

Thank you for the series!

[@kalvinpearce]

Loving the series. Just followed through all of them while updating my config. Definitely a big help for getting nvim-cmp figured out

[@jervx829]

It only works for Nvim 0.7+. Thank you so much, I don't really have experience about vim & I'm trying to get out from vscode which is my comfort place to code. Now I love coding in terminal because of this. Thank You, I'll practice more vim

[@isAif47]

I would like to suggest increasing the font size while recording videos. I think most of the viewers are using small screen for watching videos, this will be helpful.

[@vlota]

Yes. And it would also be nice if you'd stop manically scrolling up and down inside every window, while speaking about it. It's the screengrab equivalent of those people who can't stop swinging their camera from side to side to point at each thing they're talking about. There's a reason most professional film-makers use tripods and/or keep the camera still. It's so that your viewers don't have to take a sea-sickness pill before watching!

[@HarshKumar-qw5ou]

It is not a series but a course.

[@jjernigan1065]

Thanks so much for this series!! I can't wait for the rest of your videos. At some point, could you make a video for setting up nvim-jdtls for java? I've been trying to figure it out but it's super complicated...

[@Prashant.thomas]

This was a great series. I've been putting off from upgrading nvim, but your videos inspired me to make the jump. It was not only fascinating but also entertaining. I hope you continue to put up more videos. Could you put up some videos on using lunar vim as a text editor. I prefer VIM to editing text and creative writing. Thanks so much for your time and hard work.

[@santiagogonzalez6338]

To fix indentation at 10:12 you could press = and it will fix it for you.

[@chrisatmachine]

I've had mixed results with doing formatting that way, in this case I think you're right tho.

[@djcardwellai]

Is there an easy way to save files and also format on save with the way you have neovim setup?

[@stoicfloor]

Christmas came early!

[@fitfulpanda2960]

After section 08-treesitter, when I open 09-autopairs I keep getting the error message : "/.config/nvim/lua/user/lsp/settings/jsonls.lua:172: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil). I've tried 3 times and it keeps happening. I've tried Googling but the results make sense to a noob. What am I doing wrong?

[@thatoneguy5191]

I get an error saying no C complier found, and none of my syntax hilighing works, any tips on what I could do?

[@emmanuels.emokor3783]

I get the error vim/shared.lua:262: after the second argument: expected table, got boolean. How can I clear this error? It doesn't break my Neovim but it's annoying!!

[@WeAreTeamNovus]

How would I go about changing the parentheses color from the ts-rainbow plugin from red to something else?

[@chrisatmachine]

github.com/ChristianChiarulli/nvim/blob/935cfbc9e310710b4e2ce521e9c8be770703130b/lua/user/treesitter.lua#L39

[@kristofferkristensen9142]

Does anyone know how he's repeating the same key so fast? I'm using a mac, and have set the key-repeat to the fastest, but it's nowhere near as fast as his navigating.

[@fooked1]

What's the weird white underscrore line that appears occasionally?

[@pawekwasny7108]

Any idea why tree-sitter confilicts with which-key? I cloned your repo and it does not work. I mean I can explicitly call ":WhichKey" but it doesn't bing the usual popup menu and moreover I cannot do it with leader key as usually.

[@JeremyIglehart]

Hey Chris, heads up - the branch for this video seems to be broken and doesn't start with the code that you have in the video. Maybe worth taking a look at.

[@nestormorales868]

Hey! Loved your video, great content What do you use for autocomplete in python? (The suggestions of functions etc) thanks 🙌

[@tony-ma]

Hi Chris, can you please do a dedicated video on the code formatting in nvim? thanks

[@tomosmallpond9306]

Hi! I love your series. Could you do one for DAP with nice configurations including nvim-dap, nvim-dap-ui, nvim-dap-virtual-text, telescope-dap.nvim, and vim-ulttest? I'd like some advice to improve my config for DAP.

[@claudioribeiro7299]

Great Idea! It would be helpful! Chris, thank you for your awesome work!!!

[@gonzalooviedo5435]

TSHighLightUnderCursor is not present, what I'm doing wrong?

[@g-luu]

Great video. Please do a colorscheme from scratch tutorial

[@mohammadreza.beygifard]

I wish I could give this video three four or five likes, thank you, man!

[@mkamp]

Does anybody know what Chris is using to show the key strokes?

[@swastikacharyya]

Merry Christmas ☃️💓 And one question , how are you highlighting the words under the cursor ?

[@chrisatmachine]

Your looking for document highlight which is provided by your language server, you can pass this behavior on_attach, checkout my video in the playlist for LSP, Merry Christmas

[@swastikacharyya]

@@chrisatmachine Thanks for the quick reply , bingin' the playlist rn :)

[@rubempacelli6815]

Thank you very much!

[@Danielo515]

Is that highlight information part of the default install?

[@helloquico]

what is that setting that highlights equal words? I thought it was treesitter, but it was still on when you disabled it..

[@helloquico]

is that 'hlsearch'??

[@chrisatmachine]

it's an autocommand in the handlers.lua file. I think I explained it in the LSP video. Basically its and autocommand on cursorhold that highlights symbols and refreshes on cursor move. The command that does the highlighting is provided by your language server.

[@helloquico]

@@chrisatmachine Ok, thanks, I knew I heard mention it somewhere. Thanks, you're doing such a great job introducing neovim. I had been putting it off, until I decided to try LSP in vim. I got it working but its no pretty. It felt hackish at best.

[@Rhxrrrr]

dude how did u get that colour scheme im gonna cry

[@bva0]

Wait! Does the highlighting come from treesitter? I might have configured something incorrectly... I had to do it through nvim-cmp.

[@chrisatmachine]

highlighting comes from treesitter, completion comes from cmp.

[@bva0]

​@@chrisatmachine Thank you for the reply! I started using Neovim for python development about a week ago and didn't know anything! Binged watched your videos (and liked them, of course) and learned a lot. Something that still irks me though is... how to avoid plugin conflicts? For example, I use pyright LSP for python completion. But pyright does not offer signature completion! I initially thought the issue was with nvim-cmp... So then I installed `ray-x/lsp_signature` and everything works. But what if I had used a different LSP for python, one that provides signature help? Would this conflict with lsp_signature? I should test this...

[@wayneswildworld]

I am getting a treesitter error as well as a word search error can you answer my issue in the git repo please :)

[@dopamine9176]

How to make ejs highlight? In treesitter dont have syntax highlight for ejs

[@gonzalooviedo5435]

And treesitter with the configuration that you gave doesnt work as you presented in React .jsx files.

[@MudassirKhan-sx9jy]

In my case it gives error tree-sitter executable not found

[@MudassirKhan-sx9jy]

It's fixed now : installing npm tree-sitter-cli fixed it

[@艾曦-e4g]

Hℹ, I update to neovim 0.7 release version and the highlight tree-sitter just stop working properly. I set the highlight enable=true, but, I have to use the command to enable highlight, otherwise, it just has no color at all. Does it relate to my terminal or my tmux, I just wonder that. But, I try the ubuntu default terminal instead of my alatertty, and without tmux, I got the same results. Has ever you guys encountered this before and how did you solve it.

[@user-xd5gb2rf6k]

were you able to solve this to work with Tmux? i just noticed it today

[@trangcongthanh]

Has anyone got an issue with indent for React? It's so annoying but I don't know how to fix :(

[@mujiburrehmanansari5671]

I followed entire playlist till now multiple time (precisely 7 time ;) ), but still treesitter not working for me, I am using windows 10 OC with vim installed version 9.0 and nvim version 0.8 .. no issue/bugs/messages from nvim but still no highlight for my react file.. :( ... I also ran TSEnable highlight nothing solved

[@chrisatmachine]

Did you TS install javascript?

[@ricardorien]

Thanks! amazing

[@oriumi]

I can't use treesitter because I always have this error regardless of the language I ask it to install, can anyone help me? 😢 nvim-treesitter[lua]: Error during tarball extraction. /usr/bin/gzip: 1: ^?ELF^B^A^A^C: not found /usr/bin/gzip: 3: ^C^C^A: not found /usr/bin/gzip: 4: Syntax error: "(" unexpected tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

[@jrdicoll]

If you get an error try this instead: ensure_installed = {maintained},

[@wisniewski3939]

Hi, I really appreciate your work. I have thought about a vim setup for Markdown and latex writing, but I'm not jet capable of doing it by myself. Would you mind making a guide about that?

[@krishshah3974]

I think Evan Chen has some stuff about that. idk tho

[@darkmanker]

Is it only for Lua or is there a version for Packer? Thanks

[@chrisatmachine]

not sure I understand your question

[@vitormelo22]

How do I update the configuration files? Previously in vim script I used the command below, but in lua I never got it. nnoremap r :w \| :so $MYVIMRC :echo 'Reload'

[@chrisatmachine]

you could use dofile init.lua, but the require statement actually caches modules, so even if you make a change in the module it won't reflect until you relaunch Neovim. I have a module I'm working on called hot reload in my personal config you can checkout.

[@nearest-river]

your color scheme?

[@beyond9thousand]

all / maintained does not work

[@julianomoraisbarbosa]

#til

[@gonzalooviedo5435]

Very good, except that you don't expalin how T..F...Hell you load the f... treesitter.lua