How to configure helix to use system wide tree-sitter?

[elde-n]

I have tree-sitter languages in my /usr/lib/ path, eg. /usr/lib/libtree-sitter-rust.so but using the configuration below it doesn't work, probably because source.local refers to a git path?

~/.config/helix/languages.toml

[[grammar]]
name = "rust"
source.local = { path = "/usr/lib/libtree-sitter-rust.so" }

[the-mikedavis]

The local source takes a path to a tree-sitter grammar's repository and it expects to find a src/parser.c and maybe src/scanner.c in that directory. It's for specifying source files though and is only considered by hx -g build (not used when loading a parser): you can't point to a compiled parser.

[elde-n]

Will there be support added in the future to support pre-built tree-sitter grammars?

[pascalkuthe]

No we require that the tree sitter grammar matches the exact commit so it doesn't make sense to use anything but the exact commit specified in the config that the queries were created for (which are specific to helix).

Tree sitter grammars are not stable and not reusable across different editors/progrsamms.

[elde-n]

It's stable according to my package manager, which works in neovim just fine, and if helix requires a specific version of a grammar, then I can just install that specific version with my package manager, it would be a nice option for users who have this capability