Re: Tree-sitter and major mode inheritance

[Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>]

On 20.11.2022 08:51, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> But js2-mode inherits from js-mode (meaning, it will run the same setup
>> code, and then some of its own), yet it has its own parser. Which will
>> cause all sorts of conflicts with tree-sitter.
> js2-mode is not in Emacs, so I cannot control what it does.  Ideally, it
> will need only minor adjustments (like making sure it doesn't turn on
> tree-sitter if it doesn't want to) or none at all.

That was my question: how would those "minor adjustments" look if not 
the way Yuan proposed things.

> If our changes somehow break js2-mode, we should discuss the details and try
> to fix the breakage as much as is reasonable from our side.  The details
> aren't important from where I stand; what is important is that users of
> js-mode can still use the mode even if they don't have tree-sitter installed
> or don't want to use it even if it is installed.

I agree with that goal, of course.