tag textobject for working with html markup

[Ansimorph]

When working with html, having access to a tag textobject is very useful in vim to change content nested in a html-tag.
Here's an example for deleting text in a h1 tag:

<h1>text</h1>
dit
<h1></h1>

Is something like this possible with current treesitter textobjects in helix? Could a tag be mapped to a function or would this interaction require a new textobject?

[jqhr]

Is there any news on this issue now?

[rifazn]

I'm considering to use Helix and I thought this would be possible if Tree Sitter is installed.

Doesn't having TS installed offer this functionality?

Will having an html LSP server make it work?

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Sorry I'm asking before trying as I don't want to get into configuring it and find that something like dit or cit in vim will not work here... From reading the docs in Helix, I though mitc would work.

Thanks for letting me know!

[Ansimorph]

@rifazn having Tresitter or an LSP installed is not enough to make this work. Helix needs to expose the Tresitter objects via keyboard shortcuts to enable something like vim's cit. So currently this will not work with helix in the main branch.

[adriangalilea]

I've been using helix and I absolutely love it, but this one is a bit painful when working on HTML and React.

[johannesrave]

would it be possible to simply copy the query files from the nvim repo? there is an html_tags folder and an html folder

can we simply copy them to https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/tree/master/runtime/queries/html ? how does html_tags play into it?

[hemedani]

I've been using helix and I absolutely love it, but this one is a bit painful when working on HTML and React.

@adriangalilea

Just use Alt-o for selecting inside HTML tags even in React project.