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


From: Theodor Thornhill
Subject: Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:20:36 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no>
>> Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jostein@kjonigsen.net
>> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:04:21 +0200
>> 
>> > Another possible concern is: what will users of the tree-sitter
>> > variants we add miss wrt the existing variants?  IOW, what useful
>> > features will be missing from the support of those languages by these
>> > new modes?
>> 
>> In some cases, such as the two I mentioned, nothing.  With others, such
>> as go-mode, something.  This could be some integration with package
>> managers, documentation lookup functions, etc.  In most cases, but not
>> all this is solved by LSP.  In the cases where there are benefits in the
>> original mode that needs to be handled case by case.
>
> If the missing features are minor or non-existent, I see no problem at
> all.

I'll start adding the others too then.  In this thread or as separate
bugs?

Or I could commit them myself if allowed - you decide.

Theo



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