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0 points_flux9mo ago0 comments

It might in the future, though, as the main developer has opened an issue about it: https://github.com/microsoft/edit/issues/18

The trick is doing it while keeping the binary size small, so tree sitter is not an option.

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ComputerGuru9mo ago

Vim (and so many other editors, too) supported syntax highlighting for decades before TreeSitter even existed. Let’s not act as if this is a novel challenge.

kasajian9mo ago

why would the binary size be big to support this? Scintilla has been doing syntax color for decades -- it's pretty small.

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