From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 12:10:43 +0300 Message-ID: <83o7ukgi24.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83czb1jrm3.fsf@gnu.org> <878rlo7on0.fsf@thornhill.no> <83o7uki5ol.fsf@gnu.org> <87tu4c5g9j.fsf@thornhill.no> <835ygshz6k.fsf@gnu.org> <87ilks59t6.fsf@thornhill.no> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22772"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jostein@kjonigsen.net To: Theodor Thornhill Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 10 11:19:02 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ohowA-0005jl-3P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:19:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45740 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ohow8-00020D-Hr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2022 05:19:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50150) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ohoo9-00025B-2a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2022 05:10:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60350) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ohoo8-0000ot-Cw; Mon, 10 Oct 2022 05:10:44 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=0euC3jPelgVP7A1IoS8of9TMhg1NoNsAlGJmtBRmtcQ=; b=nwnh2PZZTrLH 7y4tj9IugBzXYDf96fRkv4dz0SaHO6RLM5pyY1ZQtTkKDEVOxIqJ2tbB+lvU2gEwApDmR/Um/EuO5 op1WafuLCgW4Av1SUaTVJyh97kt0je+vYMVLEGsY6YVxxBuG9PgkWCY4Jlq2iRCgPpLg/5ijDgZhK JUoaqEIdIS98L59ufFQdSOQ1wua6dXDvItv7vkIEnCJQvEk+Zys85xT1LXB91vxqFGAknwOPCKa/g ui1Tn9fo/7e51WagpOqaEqMImXNXmUD+22uwKGRShXOohCHlva4sbziV0HcC01Zvyp94B0079C3Cf rXyHmmlliyH9JBZDmbVy3g==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1119 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ohoo7-0005kX-0N; Mon, 10 Oct 2022 05:10:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87ilks59t6.fsf@thornhill.no> (message from Theodor Thornhill on Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:04:21 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:297347 Archived-At: > From: Theodor Thornhill > Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jostein@kjonigsen.net > Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:04:21 +0200 > > > Another possible concern is: what will users of the tree-sitter > > variants we add miss wrt the existing variants? IOW, what useful > > features will be missing from the support of those languages by these > > new modes? > > In some cases, such as the two I mentioned, nothing. With others, such > as go-mode, something. This could be some integration with package > managers, documentation lookup functions, etc. In most cases, but not > all this is solved by LSP. In the cases where there are benefits in the > original mode that needs to be handled case by case. If the missing features are minor or non-existent, I see no problem at all.