Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes

[Po Lu]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> How much of a priority is using tree sitter for Emacs Lisp?  It appears
> that this[0] is the grammar implementation, and it currently doesn't
> support the following:
>
>     Autoload cookies
>     Definitions (e.g. defun, defvar, defmacro)
>
> As far as I understand, this means that from your list of enhanced
> features, the following will either be restricted or not work at all:
>
>  - font-lock
>  - indentation
>  - imenu
>  - which-func

BTW, what exactly is the problem with the existing emacs-lisp-mode? How
do we expect tree-sitter will make it better?