Re: Turing on tree-sitter (was: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes)

[Theodor Thornhill]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2022 16:25:17 +0300
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, casouri@gmail.com
>> 
>> > From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
>> > Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2022 12:26:09 +0000
>> > 
>> > One more thing, it looks like the usage of tree-sitter is enabled for
>> > python by toggling `python-use-tree-sitter'.  Will every mode now have
>> > this kind of an option?  I would hope not...
>> 
>> That's a separate discussion, so please start a new thread.
>
> So here I am, starting that separate discussion.
>
> Since tree-sitter support is per-language, I do think it makes sense
> for each mode to have its tree-sitter support turned on separately.
> But we could also have a global "turn on tree-sitter support in every
> mode that has it" option, which will turn this on for those modes
> which can be supported by tree-sitter, if the appropriate
> language-support library is installed.
>
> Comments?

+1 for this, but also keep the per-modes customs.  Then we can eat the
cake and have it too.

Such a mechanism can be made later, I think?

Theo