This repository contains a number of crates used by the Helix editor for integration with the tree-sitter C library.
Most notably the highlighter crate tree-house
provides Helix's syntax highlighting and all other tree-sitter features since the 25.07 release. The highlighter was rewritten from scratch for simplification and to fix a number of bugs. Read more in the 25.07 release highlights.
Documentation is a work-in-progress and these crates may see breaking changes as we expand our use of Tree-sitter in Helix.
bindings/
contains thetree-house-bindings
crate which provides Rust bindings over the C library and optional integration with the Ropey rope crate.highlighter/
contains thetree-house
crate which exposes a robust highlighter and query iterator for working across [injections].skidder/
contains theskidder
crate which exposes utilities for building a package repository for tree-sitter grammars.cli/
contains theskidder-cli
crate which wrapsskidder
in a command line interface.