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Chandler CarruthandRichard Smith cfd1ed8484 Switch from Prettier to Rumdl for Markdown formatting (#7423)
Rumdl already appears to have _significantly_ fewer bugs than prettier,
and a solid LSP for editor integration.

The tool is: https://github.com/rvben/rumdl/

I've separated out the change across three commits for easier review.

The configuration tries to match the existing formatting, the changes to
the all the files are to correct issues found by the new tool.

Assisted-by: Antigravity with Gemini

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Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
2026-06-26 21:42:01 +00:00

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# 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
```
### Building and Testing
To build and test changes to the grammar using Bazel, provide specific flags to
allow the build to access the system `tree-sitter` binary and environment.
```bash
bazel test //utils/tree_sitter:string_tests \
--strategy=Genrule=local \
--action_env=PATH \
--action_env=HOME
```
- `--strategy=Genrule=local`: Disables sandboxing for the genrule that runs
`tree-sitter generate`, allowing it to find the system-installed binary.
- `--action_env=PATH`: Passes your current `PATH` to the build actions,
ensuring `tree-sitter` can be found. If `tree-sitter` is not in your default
PATH, you can specify it explicitly, for example:
`--action_env=PATH=/path/to/tree-sitter/bin:$PATH`.
- `--action_env=HOME`: Passes your `HOME` environment variable, which
`tree-sitter` may need to locate its configuration or cache.
## 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