bug#64017: Wrong conversion from Emacs to Tree-sitter S-expression syntax

[Basil Contovounesios]

Mattias Engdegård [2023-06-16 19:02 +0200] wrote:

> Here is a modification of the treesit manual to teach s-expressions first.
> It's mostly a matter of straightforward substitution.

Generally LGTM, thanks.

> diff --git a/doc/lispref/parsing.texi b/doc/lispref/parsing.texi
> index b0824faaaa2..bd81ee3c535 100644
> --- a/doc/lispref/parsing.texi
> +++ b/doc/lispref/parsing.texi
> @@ -1132,9 +1132,9 @@ Pattern Matching
>  
>  @defun treesit-query-capture node query &optional beg end node-only
>  This function matches patterns in @var{query} within @var{node}.
> -The argument @var{query} can be either a string, a s-expression, or a
> -compiled query object.  For now, we focus on the string syntax;
> -s-expression syntax and compiled query are described at the end of the
> +The argument @var{query} can be either a s-expression, a string, or a
> +compiled query object.  For now, we focus on the s-expression syntax;
> +string syntax and compiled query are described at the end of the
>  section.

I recently tweaked some of these docs in emacs-29, so you may want to
merge into master before respinning your patch.

> @@ -1341,22 +1341,23 @@ Pattern Matching
>  @noindent
>  tree-sitter only matches arrays where the first element equals to the
>  last element.  To attach a predicate to a pattern, we need to group
> -them together.  A predicate always starts with a @samp{#}.  Currently
> -there are three predicates, @code{#equal}, @code{#match}, and
> -@code{#pred}.
> +them together.  Currently
> +there are three predicates, @code{:equal}, @code{:match}, and
> +@code{:pred}.

Do you intend to refill the paragraph before merging?

>  @itemize
>  @item
> -Anchor @samp{.} is written as @code{:anchor}.
> +Anchor @code{:anchor}. is written as @samp{.}
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Basil