Re: Average-user-facing interface for tree-sitter

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 17:32:33 +0800, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> said:

    Po Lu> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
    >> off-by-two: thereʼs also the "I want syntax highlighting and
    >> indentation to work out of the box, donʼt bother me with
    >> implementation details" camp, which kind of implies that we should
    >> turn on tree-sitter by default if itʼs available.

    Po Lu> That's camp 1.

How can they know the want tree-sitter everywhere if they donʼt want
to be bothered with how syntax highlighting and indentation are
achieved? Anyway, the taxonomy of potential tree-sitter users is not
important

    Po Lu> I fall somewhere in between.  My hope is that Emacs and major modes 
will
    Po Lu> still support being run without tree-sitter.

I think that will be true, but suspect the non-tree-sitter experience
will not keep up.

Robert
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