# Tree-sitter grammar for Carbon

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Tree-sitter is currently used for syntax highlighting in supported editors.

## Development

We use a non-hermetic tree-sitter invocation, so it must be installed locally.
To install tree-sitter, run:

```
npm install -g tree-sitter-cli
```

## Editor Installation

### Helix

1. Install
   [tree-sitter](https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/creating-parsers#installation)
   and Nodejs.
2. Install [Helix](https://docs.helix-editor.com/install.html).
3. Run `./helix.sh`

### Emacs

TODO