Re: Tree-sitter and major mode inheritance

[Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>]

On 20.11.2022 00:03, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 19.11.2022 23:49, Yuan Fu wrote:
>> Actually, that’s evidence supporting his preference: js-mode will 
>> remain to be the native implementation, so inheriting from it is 
>> exactly as before. Js-ts-mode will install tree-sitter stuff. And 
>> js-base-mode wouldn’t do much.
> 
> But js-base-mode will be used in auto-mode-alist?
> 
> That should work, I think.

Could we make the dispatcher "modes" regular functions, though? Keeping 
them out of the inheritance chain.

That would make (derived-mode-p 'js-base-mode) always fail, of course, 
but if we are talking about existing code, there will be checks like 
(derived-mode-p 'js-mode) which are going to fail anyway now because 
js-js-mode isn't going to derive from js-mode. Could this be solvable 
through major-mode-remap-alist?

And if they (base modes) are not real modes, call it something like 
js-mode-dispatch or js-mode-virtual. Or js-mode-choose, etc, something 
with a verb at the end might do a better signal that it's not a "mode" 
and there is no point in inheriting or doing derived-mode-p checks on it.