Re: Tree-sitter integration on feature/tree-sitter

[Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>]

> 
> That reminds me -- Yuan, have you seen my PR to tree-sitter-langs, Hacky
> support for treesit in Emacs core [2]?
> 
> It uses tree-sitter-langs' groundwork for fetching grammars and
> packaging highlighting queries, but uses treesit instead of the
> tree-sitter dynamic module.
> 
> Enabling highlighting is just M-x treesit-langs-hl-mode in major-modes
> that tree-sitter-langs supports.
> 
> [2]: https://github.com/emacs-tree-sitter/tree-sitter-langs/pull/99

Ah yes, I’ve seen it. I think the part that automatically downloads and builds language definitions is very useful. It cannot be in Emacs core because we cannot distribute language definitions, but it could be a very useful ELPA or MELPA package. The part that automatically generate highlighting is also useful, but I’m not sure how would we use it. We probably don’t want to add a tree-sitterify-mode that just enables tree-sitter highlight in a mode—I prefer that we change each major mode to use tree-sitter features.

Also I think it makes more sense if you just fork it rather than making a PR.

Yuan