This repo contains my custom treesitter queries for helix :3

Helix will first read its “preset” runtime, which is stored relatively to where your helix binary is. Here's a visualizer:

hx
runtime/
   grammars/
   themes/
   queries/
      ada/
         folds.scm
         highlights.scm
         injections.scm
         locals.scm
         textobjects.scm
      ... other languages ...
      zig/
         highlights.scm
         indents.scm
         injections.scm
         locals.scm
         rainbows.scm
         tags.scm
         textobjects.scm
   tutor

If you compile helix from source, the best approach to get this going is to symlink the runtime/ directory from where your helix binary is stored, to the runtime/ directory in your locally cloned helix repo.

My helix binary is ~/fes/eva/hx, and I store my local clone in ~/fes/ork/hx, so I use the below ↓

rm -fr ~/fes/eva/runtime
ln -sf ~/fes/ork/hx/runtime ~/fes/eva

Now that you have this set up, you can override particular files in your config. ~/.config/helix/ repeats the similar structure:

~/.config/helix/runtime/
   grammars/
   themes/
   queries/
      fish/
         highlights.scm
   tutor

So! This repo is the queries/ in the above visualization. I have this repo stored locally as ~/fes/ork/qiri, so:

mkdir -p ~/.config/helix/runtime
ln -sf ~/fes/ork/qiri/ ~/.config/helix/runtime/queries

Realistically you won't want to use all of my queries wholesale; you'll probably want to pick particular files and yank them. Put them in ~/.config/helix/runtime/, not forgetting that each language needs to be stored in its own subdirectory.

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Most of my queries can be used as is, but for some languages I use a custom parser. If something is not working, check what I'm using in my config.

Contribution

Don't. This is mine. Feel totally free to take my work as a base and start your own repo though 😌