Re: Turing on tree-sitter (was: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, casouri@gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 08:46:21 +0200
> 
> > Since tree-sitter support is per-language, I do think it makes sense
> > for each mode to have its tree-sitter support turned on separately.
> > But we could also have a global "turn on tree-sitter support in every
> > mode that has it" option, which will turn this on for those modes
> > which can be supported by tree-sitter, if the appropriate
> > language-support library is installed.
> >
> > Comments?
> 
> +1 for this, but also keep the per-modes customs.  Then we can eat the
> cake and have it too.
> 
> Such a mechanism can be made later, I think?

Yes.  But ideally before Emacs 29 starts the release cycle, since the
global variable should be heeded by all the modes.  It should also be
in the manual.