Re: Need for "-ts-mode" modes

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 21:57:12 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > What I want to know is, if this is viable (as I plan to find out in the
> > next few days), would it be possible to change the current route before
> > 29.1 is released, so as to avoid committing to the current strategy.
> 
> You can try.  I would like to start a full feature freeze in a day or
> two, so I'm not sure you will have enough time.  And it isn't like we
> didn't try various approaches during the past two months, so frankly I
> don't think that a better way even exists.  But if you come up with
> some very bright idea, who knows?

And, btw, we are not really "committed to the current strategy".  What
the FOO-ts-mode commands do is entirely up to us, and if we find a way
of doing that as some kind of minor customization that is part of the
"traditional" FOO-mode, we can easily do it in the future.  So I
really don't see a need to hurry with alternative strategies, as we
don't yet have enough data to validate any strategies for this
purpose.  What we have now is our best shot, as the alternatives we
considered, including something similar to what you propose, each one
had either significant disadvantages or not enough advantages.