I’m noticing that there’s a collection of “CodeMirror 5 modes” which uses the StreamParser extension. Currently I wasn’t able to find any system guide documentation regarding it, other than the reference manual.
In my understanding, this acts as some kind of shim to port existing CM5 modes to CM6 with minimal changes.
My question is - is it meant to be generally usable and long-term supported? Specifically, I have a custom CM5 mode that’s a heavily modified version of HyperMD, which is a heavily modified version of GitHub-flavored markdown from CM5. Our version is also augmented with a few non-standard markdown syntaxes.
While I’d like to try and port it over to the new lezer based parser, what’s preventing me from doing so are:
- I’m finding it fairly difficult to do given how difficult markdown is to parse in the first place, in that it can’t really be parsed by lezer’s LR.
- I’ve attempted to read through lezer-markdown, the new CommonMark-only parser. It provides a good starting point, but there’s quite a lot of complexity in it, and after a few hours I’m still finding trouble understanding the general architecture of it. (Probably because it’s fairly undocumented).
- Time constraints
the bane of every programmer.
If it was possible to leverage StreamParser to quickly ship an initial version quickly, knowing the downsides of doing so, that would be great!