Re: Make all tree-sitter modes optional

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 19:10:45 +0200
> Cc: casouri@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, larsi@gnus.org,
>  theo@thornhill.no, jostein@secure.kjonigsen.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> 
> >> I can start a new session for an investigation, but I'm not going to
> >> restart Emacs every time I evaluate a form.
> > 
> > Why not?  It's easy and quick and solves all the problems you
> > mentioned (and then some).
> 
> That would increase the time and effort required for such an 
> investigation ~5x. (*)

But testing in a session that is not clean is not recommended.  For
reasons more important than the issue at hand...

However, I'm the last person to tell others how to organize their
workflows, so I'll leave it at that.

> > You can start from "emacs -Q" and load whatever is needed.  You can
> > make an ad-hoc init file that loads everything you need automatically,
> > to save manual typing.  I'm doing this all the time when the setup is
> > complicated.
> 
> And now more people will have to, in less complicated situations, which 
> previously required no such preparation.

Maybe.  Like I said, the solution I proposed is not ideal, I just
don't see a clearly better one.