Org grammar for tree-sitter. Here, the goal is to implement a grammar that can usefully parse org files to be used in any library that uses tree-sitter parsers. It is not meant to implement emacs' orgmode parser exactly, which is inherently more dynamic than tree-sitter easily allows.
This section is meant to be a quick reference, not a thorough description.
Refer to the tests in corpus for examples.
- Top level node:
(document) - Document contains:
(directive)* (body)? (section)* - Section contains:
(headline) (plan)? (property_drawer)? (body)? - headline contains:
((stars), (item)?, (tag_list)?) - body contains:
(element)+ - element contains:
(directive)* choose(paragraph, drawer, comment, footnote def, list, block, dynamic block, table)or a bare(directive) - paragraph contains:
(expr)+ - expr contains: anonymous nodes for 'str', 'num', 'sym', and any ascii symbol that is not letters or numbers. (See top of grammar.js and queries for details)
Like in many regex systems, */+ is read as "0/1 or more", and ? is 0 or 1.
#+TITLE: Example
Some *marked up* words
* TODO Title
<2020-06-07 Sun>
- list a
- [-] list a
- [ ] list b
- [x] list b
- list a
** Subsection :tag:
Text
Parses as:
(document [0, 0] - [16, 0]
body: (body [0, 0] - [4, 0]
directive: (directive [0, 0] - [1, 0]
name: (expr [0, 2] - [0, 7])
value: (value [0, 9] - [0, 16]
(expr [0, 9] - [0, 16])))
(paragraph [2, 0] - [3, 0]
(expr [2, 0] - [2, 4])
(expr [2, 5] - [2, 12])
(expr [2, 13] - [2, 16])
(expr [2, 17] - [2, 22])))
subsection: (section [4, 0] - [16, 0]
headline: (headline [4, 0] - [5, 0]
stars: (stars [4, 0] - [4, 1])
item: (item [4, 2] - [4, 12]
(expr [4, 2] - [4, 6])
(expr [4, 7] - [4, 12])))
plan: (plan [5, 0] - [6, 0]
(entry [5, 0] - [5, 16]
timestamp: (timestamp [5, 0] - [5, 16]
date: (date [5, 1] - [5, 11])
day: (day [5, 12] - [5, 15]))))
body: (body [6, 0] - [13, 0]
(list [7, 0] - [12, 0]
(listitem [7, 2] - [8, 0]
bullet: (bullet [7, 2] - [7, 3])
contents: (paragraph [7, 4] - [8, 0]
(expr [7, 4] - [7, 8])
(expr [7, 9] - [7, 10])))
(listitem [8, 2] - [11, 0]
bullet: (bullet [8, 2] - [8, 3])
checkbox: (checkbox [8, 4] - [8, 7]
status: (expr [8, 5] - [8, 6]))
contents: (paragraph [8, 8] - [9, 0]
(expr [8, 8] - [8, 12])
(expr [8, 13] - [8, 14]))
contents: (list [9, 0] - [11, 0]
(listitem [9, 4] - [10, 0]
bullet: (bullet [9, 4] - [9, 5])
checkbox: (checkbox [9, 6] - [9, 9])
contents: (paragraph [9, 10] - [10, 0]
(expr [9, 10] - [9, 14])
(expr [9, 15] - [9, 16])))
(listitem [10, 4] - [11, 0]
bullet: (bullet [10, 4] - [10, 5])
checkbox: (checkbox [10, 6] - [10, 9]
status: (expr [10, 7] - [10, 8]))
contents: (paragraph [10, 10] - [11, 0]
(expr [10, 10] - [10, 14])
(expr [10, 15] - [10, 16])))))
(listitem [11, 2] - [12, 0]
bullet: (bullet [11, 2] - [11, 3])
contents: (paragraph [11, 4] - [12, 0]
(expr [11, 4] - [11, 8])
(expr [11, 9] - [11, 10])))))
subsection: (section [13, 0] - [16, 0]
headline: (headline [13, 0] - [14, 0]
stars: (stars [13, 0] - [13, 2])
item: (item [13, 3] - [13, 13]
(expr [13, 3] - [13, 13]))
tags: (tag_list [13, 14] - [13, 19]
tag: (tag [13, 15] - [13, 18])))
body: (body [14, 0] - [16, 0]
(paragraph [15, 0] - [16, 0]
(expr [15, 0] - [15, 4]))))))
For manual install, use make.
For neovim, using nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter, add to your configuration:
local parser_config = require "nvim-treesitter.parsers".get_parser_configs()
parser_config.org = {
install_info = {
url = 'https://github.com/milisims/tree-sitter-org',
revision = 'main',
files = { 'src/parser.c', 'src/scanner.c' },
},
filetype = 'org',
}To build the parser using npm and run tests:
- Install node.js as described in the tree-sitter documentation
- Clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/milisims/tree-sitter-organdcdinto it - Install tree-sitter using npm:
npm install - Run tests:
./node_modules/.bin/tree-sitter generate && ./node_modules/.bin/tree-sitter test