Emacs 31 finally makes tree-sitter 'just work', and users are deleting their dotfile hacks (rahuljuliato.com)
Rahul Juliato's rundown of the Emacs 31 features he's daily-driving topped HN: auto-installing tree-sitter grammars, editable xref result buffers, window-layout transposition, and speedbar as a real side window. The author showed up in the thread to answer questions.
The feature that landed hardest was the boring one. 'Tree-sitter that just works' lets one longtime user delete a multi-line, OS-branching dotfile script he'd carried for years to make syntax highlighting behave.
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