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

[Richard Stallman]

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The use of tree-sitter logically ought to be a minor mode.

We don't define c-mode and c-fl-mode to specify whether to enable Font
Lock mode in a file of C code.  Rather, We have c-mode, plus another
orthogonal command, font-lock-mode.

Likewise, the Emacs user interface ought to have another minor-mode
command, tree-sitter-mode.

How it "really works" under the hood is another issue.

Users will be able to control the default for enabling tree-sitter in
various major modes with the existing general mechanism that is used
to control whether to enable Font Lodk mode and other minor modes: the
major mode's mode hook.

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