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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 07 May 2022 21:00:33 +0200
> 
> >
> > Yes, thanks.
> >
> > However, I hoped that the font-lock and indentation are already
> > integrated with tree-sitter, and all that is needed for a given
> > major-mode to use it is to flip some variable.  I didn't expect to
> > need a completely separate major mode for C sources, for example.
> 
> Isn't that the case, though?  You need to define the patterns to use,
> but apart from that, there's not much to it.

I hoped those patterns and the support code was already in place, at
least for the important major mode we use frequently.

> > It sounds like we are farther from the goal that I thought we were,
> > and some serious work is still ahead of us to get this integrated into
> > the existing major modes.
> 
> There's some manual labor involved in supporting a language.

I hoped some of that was already done.