tree-sitter-highlight

Usage

Add this crate, and the language-specific crates for whichever languages you want to parse, to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
tree-sitter-highlight = "0.19"
tree-sitter-html = "0.19"
tree-sitter-javascript = "0.19"

Define the list of highlight names that you will recognize:

let highlight_names = &[
    "attribute",
    "constant",
    "function.builtin",
    "function",
    "keyword",
    "operator",
    "property",
    "punctuation",
    "punctuation.bracket",
    "punctuation.delimiter",
    "string",
    "string.special",
    "tag",
    "type",
    "type.builtin",
    "variable",
    "variable.builtin",
    "variable.parameter",
];

Create a highlighter. You need one of these for each thread that you're using for syntax highlighting:

use tree_sitter_highlight::Highlighter;
 
let highlighter = Highlighter::new();

Load some highlighting queries from the queries directory of some language repositories:

use tree_sitter_highlight::HighlightConfiguration;
 
let html_language = unsafe { tree_sitter_html() };
let javascript_language = unsafe { tree_sitter_javascript() };
 
let html_config = HighlightConfiguration::new(
    tree_sitter_html::language(),
    tree_sitter_html::HIGHLIGHTS_QUERY,
    tree_sitter_html::INJECTIONS_QUERY,
    "",
).unwrap();
 
let javascript_config = HighlightConfiguration::new(
    tree_sitter_javascript::language(),
    tree_sitter_javascript::HIGHLIGHTS_QUERY,
    tree_sitter_javascript::INJECTIONS_QUERY,
    tree_sitter_javascript::LCOALS_QUERY,
).unwrap();

Configure the recognized names:

javascript_config.configure(&highlight_names);

Highlight some code:

use tree_sitter_highlight::HighlightEvent;
 
let highlights = highlighter.highlight(
    &javascript_config,
    b"const x = new Y();",
    None,
    |_| None
).unwrap();
 
for event in highlights {
    match event.unwrap() {
        HighlightEvent::Source {start, end} => {
            eprintln!("source: {}-{}", start, end);
        },
        HighlightEvent::HighlightStart(s) => {
            eprintln!("highlight style started: {:?}", s);
        },
        HighlightEvent::HighlightEnd => {
            eprintln!("highlight style ended");
        },
    }
}

The last parameter to highlight is a language injection callback. This allows other languages to be retrieved when Tree-sitter detects an embedded document (for example, a piece of JavaScript code inside of a script tag within HTML).