Highlighting breaks with Helix editor

[tynanbe]

It looks like it stopped working at this commit: b7ae2c9

[the-mikedavis]

Do you have custom config in ~/.config/helix/languages.toml to update the [[grammar]] block? Generally you can't update the parser alone - if there are breaking changes like in 23d2b89 (the parent of the commit you linked) then the queries might fail to compile.

Also see helix-editor/helix#9003 - that PR has the updates for the queries that should fix query compilation.

[tynanbe]

Using Helix v23.10, with this in languages.toml:

[[grammar]]
name = "gleam"

[grammar.source]
git = "https://github.com/gleam-lang/tree-sitter-gleam"
rev = "23d2b896514087d97f75a62035b325a4704cbae5"

I do see an error in helix.log stating that the Gleam queries couldn't be parsed, after running the following with any rev newer than the above.

> hx --grammar fetch && hx --grammar build

Sounds like I need a newer Helix build?

[the-mikedavis]

Yep you need the updates to the highlight query that lives in runtime/queries/gleam/highlights.scm. You can overwrite the one in ~/.config/helix/runtime/queries/gleam/highlights.scm (or $HELIX_RUNTIME/queries/gleam/highlights.scm if you set the HELIX_RUNTIME environment variable) with the latest one from the Helix repo if you don't want to rebuild Helix from source.

[tynanbe]

Sure enough, the updated queries resolved the issue. Thanks very much; sorry for taking your time!