Automatically install treesitter parsers with ts-install.nvim

[tpwo]

Hello, I recently synced my fork, and I noticed that I lost syntax highlighting in most of filetypes I use daily.

Investigation showed me that treesitter's auto_install=true was dropped in 7ea937d.

To get highlighting back, I started adding missing filetypes to the list of parsers manually one-by-one, but it's quite annoying once you were used to auto_install.

So I dug more. In treesitter commit which removed auto_install they suggest using a separate plugin to keep the old behavior: nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter@ab230ea

https://github.com/lewis6991/ts-install.nvim

I was able to make it work in my fork: tpwo@ab0222a

Would you accept a PR doing something like that for the main repo? It's adding one more plugin, but having parsers installed automatically is quite convenient, so IMO it makes sense for the target audience of kickstart. Do you agree?

[SetsuikiHyoryu]

I generally advocate minimizing reliance on plugins as much as possible, so at first I thought this configuration should be added to the main branch as a commented-out option.

However, considering that newcomers to Neovim might not realize they need to uncomment it in the configuration when there’s no syntax highlighting by default—and could end up taking unnecessary detours—it might be better to enable it by default. That said, it would be helpful to include a comment indicating that this plugin isn’t strictly necessary for regular use, for those who are interested in exploring the configuration more deeply.

[tpwo]

Thanks for the feedback, I see it the same way, hence this issue. I created #1953, and added a comment with a note like you suggested.

[jgw6fg8qng-ai]

This sounds great to me I will definitely be looking forward to it thanks

[jgw6fg8qng-ai]

7ea937d

[jgw6fg8qng-ai]

tpwo/kickstart.nvim@ab0222a #1953