Tree sitter highlinting for kakoune, a minimal example

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I tried setting up tree-sitter with kakoune,
  and it turned out to be not quite trivial.
There are multiple plugins that aim to provide this functionality
  of varying degree of completeness.
I felt that existing documentation for them focuses low-level details,
  and there isn't a simple list of steps to get something working.
Below are such steps to get a minimal working syntax highlighting for Kakoune using tree-sitter.

I use use `latex` language as an example, put your languages in its place.

1. Install <https://git.sr.ht/~hadronized/kak-tree-sitter>.
   Either by compiling from source, or using your package manager.
   It comes with two executables, `ktsctl` and `kak-tree-sitter`.

2. Copy [default config](https://git.sr.ht/~hadronized/kak-tree-sitter/tree/66f06175f2198965bc53e9f4418cb9abc8e1be04/item/kak-tree-sitter-config/default-config.toml)
     to `~/.config/kak-tree-sitter/config.toml`.

   You may want to add something like this so kak-tree-sitter overrides the default highligher:

   ```toml
   [language.latex]
   remove_default_highlighter = true
   ```

3. Symlink [night-owl.kak](https://git.sr.ht/~hadronized/kakoune-tree-sitter-themes/tree/6997b1902f36964944d400aefa19ad9ca132f0b5/item/colors/nightowl/night-owl.kak)
     to `~/.config/kak/colors/night-owl.kak`.
   Check the linked repo for more themes.

4. Run `ktsctl sync latex`.
   This will install the parsers and queries declared in `config.toml`.

5. Add the following to your `~/.config/kak/kakrc`.

   ```kak
   eval %sh{ kak-tree-sitter -dksvv --init "${kak_session}" }
   colorscheme night-owl
   ```

6. Tree-sitter highlighting is enabled.

Check the documentation of <https://git.sr.ht/~hadronized/kak-tree-sitter> to learn how to customize the above steps.