Difference between tree-sitter-cli and neovim highlighting priority

[luckasRanarison]

Hey there! I've created a parser and highlight queries for my toy programming language and I got an issue, the highlight priority in the cli and neovim are different, tree-sitter-cli captures the first highlight and neovim the last one. On the top left the actual neovim highlighting and on the bottom left the cli highlighting:

Inspection:

[clason]

Yes, that is intentional and due to the different precedence of query order:

1. tree-sitter-cli has "first match wins" (stop processing queries at first match);
2. Neovim has -- sort of -- "last match wins" (process all queries and apply them in order; last one wins by "painting over" previous ones).

[luckasRanarison]

Thanks for the quick reply!

[clason]

Would be great though if tree-sitter CLI had a flag that could toggle the behavior (hint, hint ;))