Re: Why tree-sitter instead of Semantic? (was Re: CC Mode with font-lock-maximum-decoration 2)

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 05:06:58 -0400
> Cc: Jostein Kjønigsen <jostein@secure.kjonigsen.net>, 
> 	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, jostein@kjonigsen.net, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, 
> 	emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
> 
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 9:23 PM Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Jostein Kjønigsen <jostein@secure.kjonigsen.net> writes:
> >
> > That's not true.  If you enable Semantic and EDE, and add system
> > includes (with semantic-add-system-include), and wait for the initial
> > parse to finish after visiting a file in a project, it becomes
> > immediately useful for editing C code.  It's actually what I use for my
> > day job.
> 
> I think what Jostein means is - how would you know you need to take
> all those steps?

As usual: by reading the fine documentation.  Amazingly enough,
Semantic does have an Info manual, which comes with Emacs, and those
steps are documented there.

More generally: Semantic's problems, issues, and disadvantages aside,
let's not pretend that Emacs maintainers are incompetent.  When the
decision was made to add parts of Semantic to Emacs core, back in
Emacs 23 days, a lot of effort went into its proper integration,
including making its documentation available.  So if someone asks
him/herself how do I use this stuff, I expect that someone to make the
minimal effort of reading the available documentation and trying to
follow it.  If that doesn't work, then yes, by all means do complain.