Broken syntax highlighting in WGSL

[Chickenkeeper]

Summary

WGSL code currently generates enormous amounts of erroneous error highlights.

I suspect this may be because of the recent changes to the WGSL syntax. The version of tree-sitter-wgsl that the latest release of Helix uses had been updated to reflect the changes, but Helix's WGSL grammar hasn't been updated since months before the changes were introduced. Also WGSL code written with the old syntax is still highlighted as it was when wgsl support was first added (#1166).

I think it's worth noting that WGSL syntax highlighting has always been incomplete, but it was at least usable.

Reproduction Steps

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Platform

Windows

Terminal Emulator

PowerShell

Helix Version

helix 22.08.1 (66276ce)

[dead10ck]

This should actually be pretty easy to fix, if you'd like to give it a try. You can copy the latest commit hash and paste it here:

helix/languages.toml

Line 851 in 98dd9c4

source = { git = "https://github.com/szebniok/tree-sitter-wgsl", rev = "f00ff52251edbd58f4d39c9c3204383253032c11" }

Then hx --grammar fetch and hx --grammar build.

[Chickenkeeper]

This should actually be pretty easy to fix, if you'd like to give it a try. You can copy the latest commit hash and paste it here:

helix/languages.toml

Line 851 in 98dd9c4

source = { git = "https://github.com/szebniok/tree-sitter-wgsl", rev = "f00ff52251edbd58f4d39c9c3204383253032c11" }

Then hx --grammar fetch and hx --grammar build.

Thanks. I've been learning more about language support in Helix and I've got a fix now. I'll post a PR soon.

[Chickenkeeper]

This issue's been solved by #3996, so it can be closed now.