Renamed grammar doesn't work

[rabieifk]

TSPlayground doesn't show anything for my jdummy language which is a JSON duplicate. I created this dummy language by copying the JSON grammar and changing its name to jdummy in its grammar.js as shown below.

I can see the pars tree after running: tree-sitter parser example.jdummy, but I don't see anything in the Playgound. Am I missing anything?

module.exports = grammar({
  name: 'jdummy',

  extras: $ => [
    /\s/
  ],
...

1- mkdir tree-sitter-jdummy 2- copied the grammar.js of JSON and changed its name to jdummy 3- cd tree-sitter-jdummy 4- update my config file in ~/.config/nvim/init.vim

lua <<EOF
local parser_config = require "nvim-treesitter.parsers".get_parser_configs()
parser_config.jdummy= {
  install_info = {
    url = "~/src/tree-sitter-jdummy", -- local path or git repo
    files = {"src/parser.c"},
   branch = 'main'
  },
  filetype = "jdummy", -- if filetype does not agrees with parser name
}
EOF

5- tree-sitter generate 6- tree-sitter test 7- nvim ~/.config/nvim/init.vim => :TSInstall jdummy 8- nvim example.jdummy => :TSPlayground

[theHamsta]

There's a bug in this plugin. You have to create a highlights.scm (even an empty one) to get updates from the highlighting parsers

[rabieifk]

Still doesn't work. From the original JSON folder, I copied the queries folder which contains highlights.scm, and did all the steps again, but still see the same problem.

[aMOPel]

Probably due to a different issue, but I also noticed a bug, where the playground would not show an AST.

The issue was, that there was this in the grammar.js:

// ...
alias($.some_rule, "")
// ...

This aliasing to the empty string somehow broke the playground window, while tree-sitter parse would work perfectly fine.