Re: New Package for NonGNU-ELPA: clojure-ts-mode

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Cc: danny@dfreeman.email,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  manuel.uberti@inventati.org
>> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2023 20:22:32 +0000
>> 
>> This was my understanding as well, and while I understand it from a
>> technical perspective, I have a hunch there must be a tolerable
>> alternative with a better user interface.
>> 
>> Perhaps this is a point at which the approach at which the major-mode
>> abstraction breaks down and has to be rethought?  There have been
>> instances of alternative major modes for different languages in the past
>> (cperl, perl; js, js2, js3) that have found one way or another to
>> co-exist, but seeing how this is becoming more and more common, it would
>> be nice to have some consistent and unified way of expressing these
>> kinds of alternatives.
>
> If someone suggests such an arrangement, and demonstrates its
> viability in at least one example, we could discuss that and perhaps
> decide on migration towards such an approach.  So far, no one came
> with any workable ideas, AFAIR.

OK good to know that there is potential interest.  I had a few ideas I
wanted to try out.  As soon as (or if ever) I have something working,
I'll push the code to a feature/ branch and ping this thread again

>> > The aspects of these modes that are not yet firmly decided are how to
>> > activate/deactivate them in a way that would be convenient and simple.
>> > But I don't think we will be removing the *-ts-modes as major modes,
>> > no.
>> 
>> I get that we wouldn't want to remove them, out of backwards
>> compatibility, but is the plan to write more ...-ts-mode major modes?
>
> Yes, I think so.  There doesn't seem to be any good alternative in
> existence.