Syntax highlighting for NASM/Assembly

[ghost]

How do i get syntax highlighting for assembly code?

[kirawi]

You can look at https://docs.helix-editor.com/guides/adding_languages.html
There is also already a tree-sitter grammar at https://github.com/bearcove/tree-sitter-x86asm

[Ordoviz]

Duplicate of #3329

[ghost]

I'm not very familiar with what a tree-sitter is and grammer etc. Please explain.

[the-mikedavis]

You can read more about tree-sitter here: https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/

We use "grammar" to mean the repository that has the grammar.js rules that generate a tree-sitter parser.

Also see the guide that Kirawi linked: https://docs.helix-editor.com/guides/adding_languages.html

[ghost]

A step by step process for adding it will be helpful. It all looks confusing and vague without examples. Even the linked tree-sitter repository gives no clue on how to get things working. Please explain like i'm 5.
@the-mikedavis
@Ordoviz
@kirawi