bug#60525: 29.0.60; tree-sitter support in semantic-symref

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: 60525@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2023 09:43:12 +0200
> 
> > diff --git a/lisp/cedet/semantic/symref/grep.el
> > ...
> > -    (pat (cdr (assoc mode semantic-symref-filepattern-alist))))
> > +    (pat
> > +          (or (assoc-default mode semantic-symref-filepattern-alist)
> > +              (assoc-default (car (rassoc mode major-mode-remap-alist))
> > +                             semantic-symref-filepattern-alist))))
> 
> I'm fine with this change if Eli agrees to install it
> on the emacs-29 branch.

No, it's too much for the release branch, and as I wrote elsewhere,
doesn't sound justified to me.

> But also note that such duplication is unavoidable in many other places.
> For example, to support abbreviations there is the need to manually
> rename
> 
>   (define-abbrev-table 'ruby-mode-abbrev-table
> 
> to
> 
>   (define-abbrev-table 'ruby-base-mode-abbrev-table
> 
> in ~/.emacs.d/abbrev_defs.  But on exiting Emacs it insists
> on saving duplicate abbrevs to 
> 
>   (define-abbrev-table 'ruby-ts-mode-abbrev-table

There's no way around that: people who want use both modes will have
to live with duplication for now.  There's a limit to what we can do
so close to the release.  Sorry.