Re: Make all tree-sitter modes optional

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 03:23:57 +0200
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, larsi@gnus.org,
>  theo@thornhill.no, jostein@secure.kjonigsen.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> 
> On 18/01/2023 03:11, Yuan Fu wrote:
> >> The userbase I'm familiar with has been messing with auto-mode-alist for 
> >> decades. To make it easier, people have been adding the necessary lines to 
> >> documentation: either to the repository's README, or to package's 
> >> Commentary. So the user could take it from there.
> >>
> >> Similarly, we can add such line to the Commentary of every ts mode, or 
> >> even to the major mode docstrings
> > IF we do that, it’d be better to instruct users to use 
> > major-mode-remap-alist, since it’s easier to understand and use IMO.
> 
> Sure. This way we also avoid duplicating the file name regexp.

The purpose of major-mode-remap-alist doesn't fit such use, so this
proposal is a no-go.

Again, we've been through this already, at least twice.