Re: Tree-sitter and major mode inheritance

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 19:12:27 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, theo@thornhill.no
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> 
> On 20.11.2022 09:05, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Why do we need js-base-mode? what will it do?
> 
> I was under the impression that it would dispatch either to js-mode or 
> to js-ts-mode based on the value of some global defcustom like 
> treesit-global-modes (similar in structure for font-lock-global-modes).
> 
> But I guess not. If that choice is going to be made instead through 
> auto-mode-alist and major-mode-remap-alist.

Yes, I prefer to hide the *-base-mode modes from users as much as possible,
or not have them at all.  I think it will prevent confusion.