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Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Oct 2022 21:15:00 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Trust me, I have my own bad experiences with CC Mode fontification. See
> the slew of bugs I found and reported with Emacs 29's CC Mode just this
> week: bug#58537, bug#58534, bug#58539. My problem is the blanket
> dismissal of what CC Mode actually gets right that seems to be
> alarmingly prevalent around here ("... in Emacs 30, let's get rid of CC
> Mode!")
Some people seem very optimistic about what tree-sitter will bring, yes.
I think our track record should be enough to reassure users that we
won't just throw away CC-mode if tree-sitter doesn't prove to be
a worthy replacement *and* that it won't be thrown away any time soon
even if tree-sitter is much better.
Also, the fact that Alan still maintains CC-mode for Emacs-21 suggests
that CC-mode will still be maintained well into the 2030s, regardless if
it's still included in Emacs by then.
So, let's all take a deep breath and just wait to see how things play
out before we make any assumption or decision.
Stefan
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, (continued)
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Po Lu, 2022/10/17
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Yuan Fu, 2022/10/18
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Po Lu, 2022/10/18
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/18
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Po Lu, 2022/10/18
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/18
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Po Lu, 2022/10/19
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/20
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/20
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Jostein Kjønigsen, 2022/10/21
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Stefan Monnier, 2022/10/18
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Jostein Kjønigsen, 2022/10/19
Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/10
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Theodor Thornhill, 2022/10/10
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/10
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Theodor Thornhill, 2022/10/10
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/10
- Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes, Theodor Thornhill, 2022/10/10