Re: Mode names for C-like tree-sitter modes

[Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no>]

On 14 November 2022 02:16:13 CET, Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> wrote:
>Thanks to Theo’s great work, we now have tree-sitter powered major modes for C, C++, Java, JSON, CSS. Right now they are named c-ts-mode, c++-ts-mode, java-ts-mode, etc. And c-ts-mode and c++-ts-mode inherits from a dummy mode c-ts-mode--base-mode.
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>I think it’s fair to make C, C++ and Java modes independent, since all the cc-mode options are invalidated when we use tree-sitter. However, their name could be improved, IMO. But I can’t think of anything better than c-ts-mode :-)
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>(neo-c-mode… just saying)
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I agree and can't think of a better name either...

>c-ts-mode--base-mode should probably be a public mode, since the intention (IIUC) is enable users to configure C and C++ together, by adding hooks to this base-mode. So something like c-base-mode or c-ts-base-mode?
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Sure!

>CSS and JSON could be merged with current modes, I think. Css-ts-mode could merge with css-mode, and json-ts-mode could be merged with js-json-mode. Or we can just have a dedicated json-mode.
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>Theo, WDYT?
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That's fine with me. In any case I think we should remove tree-sitter support from js-json-mode (or merge them). I think there exist a json-mode  in both elpa and melpa, adding another isn't the best idea I think. 

Not sure what is best, really.

My vote goes to merging css and keeping others separate, but I don't have the strongest opinion there. 

I can prepare such a patch after we decide on something.

Theo