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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 08:41:58 +0200
> From: Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no>
> CC: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jostein@kjonigsen.net
> 
> >> It's somewhat confusing that we have some modes that are tree-sitter-only
> >> and some what can switch between using tree-sitter and not, but I guess
> >> that's inevitable.
> >
> >We could arrange for a very minimal font-lock without tree-sitter
> >(like, for example, only strings and comments?), and use the defaults
> >for the indentation commands.  Theodor, can that be done with a
> >relatively small effort?
> 
> Yes, we could actually just delegate that work to vanilla js-mode, as 
> Typescript is just a superset of Javascript. That would mean we would get the 
> benefits of that lineage, but missing some more advanced highlights etc. 
> 
> What do you think? 

Sounds good, but I don't use these modes, so take my opinions with a
grain of salt.

> >> But I think the in-tree tree-sitter typescript-mode will have to be
> >> called something else than the out-of-tree non-tree-sitter one, at
> >> least.
> >
> >That's desirable, yes.
> 
> Sure, I can rename it to tsx-mode, because that's the parser being used.

SGTM.

> Why is that desirable, though? 

It prevents user confusion and conflicts, I guess?