Re: Unifying "foo-mode"s and "foo-ts-mode"s

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Cc: theo@thornhill.no,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  casouri@gmail.com
>> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:39:18 +0000
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > I don't understand the question.  We provide to users _features_, not
>> > their implementations in terms of files and variables/functions.  So
>> > the symbols *-ts-mode are here to stay, and are not experimental
>> > demonstrations in any sense of that term, but what they do under the
>> > hood is up to us.
>> 
>> That answers my question.  The point is whether the usage of ...-ts-mode
>> major modes is recommended or provided with a "we reserve the right to
>> change anything"-like caveat, so one shouldn't rely too much on their
>> public interface.
>
> I guess it depends on who "one" is for this purpose.  Which code wants
> to rely on these symbols, and why?

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