Recent update to nvim-treesitter breaks markdown highlights

[anhnamtran]

There is a recent commit that has broken markdown highlighting (and likely others) due to nvim-treesitter deciding to change a lot of their queries to use standard tree-sitter queries.

The changes in question:

• tree-sitter "standard capture names"
  (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/blob/3f44b896852eb7daaa6df4fb778c9bb52c70c815/highlight/src/lib.rs#L20-L72):

  • @parameter -> @variable.parameter
  • @field -> @variable.member
  • @namespace -> @module
  • @float -> @number.float
  • @symbol -> @string.special.symbol
  • @string.regex -> @string.regexp
  • @text.* -> @markup.* (strong, italic, link, strikethrough; with exceptions; see below)
  • @text.title -> @markup.heading
  • @text.literal -> @markup.raw
  • @text.reference -> @markup.link
  • @text.uri -> @markup.link.url (in markup links)
  • @string.special -> @markup.link.label (non-url links)
  • @punctuation.special -> @markup.list (markdown lists only; move subitems from @text.todo)

• Helix captures
  (https://docs.helix-editor.com/master/themes.html#syntax-highlighting):

  • @method -> @function.method
  • @method.call -> @function.method.call
  • @text.{todo,warning,note,danger} -> @comment.{error,warning,hint,info,todo}
  • @text.diff.{add,delete,} -> @diff.{plus,minus,delta}
  • @text.uri -> @string.special.url (outside markup)
  • @preproc -> @keyword.directive
  • @define -> @keyword.directive(.define?)
  • @storageclass -> @keyword.storage
  • @conditional -> @keyword.conditional
  • @debug -> @keyword.debug
  • @exception -> @keyword.exception
  • @include -> @keyword.import
  • @repeat -> @keyword.repeat

The breakage is due to onedark.nvim not having some of the captures defined.

Some screenshots of running TSHighlighCaptureUnderCursor on a header before and after the nvim-treesitter change

[onns]

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