Freezes on typing stuff at the end of a file about tree-sitter-haskell HOT 7 CLOSED

@banacorn thanks for filing this issue. @maxbrunsfeld and I did some work on the external scanner and uncovered a condition that could result in non-termination. Those changes have been pushed to master, and should prevent your Atom instance from freezing. Do you mind checking out the latest master and verifying if the infinite looping is still occurring for you?

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@banacorn This is definitely on our radar, but as I'm still working on adding more Haskell language support for its multitude of language extensions, I've not prioritized getting this working in Atom yet. Thank you for your patience.

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@banacorn it's my understanding Atom currently isn't configured to use the get_column API that tree-sitter-haskell's external scanner depends on for parsing layout rules. This won't affect other external scanners because as of right now, tree-sitter-haskell is the only grammar that requires the get_column API (and is the motivation for why it was added to tree-sitter). @maxbrunsfeld please correct me if I'm misunderstanding!

@banacorn, unfortunately there are other problems with the external scanner not parsing some layout cases correctly. At this time I would say tree-sitter-haskell is still not stable enough to depend on for other packages and is still a WIP.

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Thank you for looking into this!
I've tried out the latest scanner but it still freezes after a few keystrokes 😢

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I want to fix this, but I can't locate the source of the problem.

Could it be the scanner? If so, then perhaps instead of adding new stuff, should we fix the non-termination first?
Could it be tree-sitter or Atom? If so, then perhaps other packages that also rely on external scanners could face this problem, too?

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@banacorn, unfortunately there are other problems with the external scanner not parsing some layout cases correctly. At this time I would say tree-sitter-haskell is still not stable enough to depend on for other packages and is still a WIP.

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Apart from the IntelliJ's Haskell-plugin (the grammar of which is kind of a 'monster' I can imagine) and maybe some internal Yi-Editor parsing-code, tree-sitter-haskell is to my knowledge the only available incremental Haskell parser available. It would be a very sad situation, if this has to stop with unresolvable issues
I am curious about the status of tree-sitter-haskell... are these issues resolvable in your opinion ?

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this applied to the version from before the rewrite, cannot reproduce it now.

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