Add documentation for adding new languages
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## Features
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- Create annotations with one keybind
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- Create annotations with one keybind, and jump your cursor using `Tab`.
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- Defaults for multiple languages and annotation conventions
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- Extremely customizable and extensible
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- Written in lua
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# Adding Languages - Simplified
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This sections aims to simplify the languages addition, without exposing you the inner workings of neogen, but only showing you the quickest way to add support to a language.
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For this, I will do a very quick recap about the backend concepts of Neogen. Pay very attention to this, because i will explain how the defaults are, so you can use the them.
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## Backend Summary
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I will use the lua configuration file [here](../lua/neogen/configurations/lua.lua) to explain the inner workings of the backend, so feel free to open a new tab and switch to it regularly.
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### Locator
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#### Concept
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The locator is a function responsible of finding the most appropriate parent for annotation purposes
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#### Default Locator
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The default locator will fetch the node in current cursor position, and try to go to each parent node recursively until it finds a node name present in `parents[<class|func|type>]`.
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Example (with Tree-sitter activated on the side for better comprehension):
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The current cursor position is located in the middle of the function (`local_variable_declaration`).
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If I generate a function annotation using neogen, the default locator will try to find the first parent node matchinf one of those:
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```lua
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func = { "function", "local_function", "local_variable_declaration", "field", "variable_declaration" },
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```
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which will be `variable_declaration`. The parent node will now be this node.
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