Re: Average-user-facing interface for tree-sitter

[Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>]

> On Oct 14, 2022, at 4:22 AM, Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote:
> 
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
>> Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> I wonder if we can have a major mode hook that runs before the body
>>> runs, like xxx-mode-before-hook. Then user can set
>>> feature-provider-alist in that hook. This way major modes can decide
>>> what backend (provider) to use for each features.
> 
> +1
> 
> I needed something similar in ada-mode; I implemented it by moving have
> of the major mode function into a post-local-vars hook; that runs
> after the major mode function.

I think the best way to allow users to alter major mode’s setup is to have such a hook run after clearing local variable but before major mode setup. Currently since major mode hook run after the setup, setting local variable in the hook doesn’t do anything. Example:

(defvar-local treesit-activate nil)

;; Enable for python-mode, TBH this looks a bit awkward.
(add-hook 'python-mode-before-hook
          (lambda () (setq treesit-activate t)))

(define-minor-mode global-treesit-mode ""
  :global t
  (if global-treesit-mode
      (setq-default treesit-activate t)
    (setq-default treesit-activate nil)))

;; Not sure about minor mode yet.

Yuan