Re: Tree-sitter integration in python.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2022 13:57:19 -0700
> Cc: arstoffel@gmail.com,
>  orontee@gmail.com,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > I think having tree-sitter respect font-lock-maximum-decoration would
> > be good, because it allows a major-mode agnostic way of controlling
> > fontifications.  With tree-sitter in mind, we'd need to agree on what
> > kind of syntactic entities are included in each level (which is also a
> > Good Thing, because currently what is level N of font-lock is entirely
> > up to the major-mode, AFAIU).
> 
> I think it is difficult to define syntactic entities for each level such that 
> it is generally enough to include all kinds of major mode out there, and 
> specific enough to be useful. It is easy for common programming languages, 
> but hard for others like html, css, prolog, etc.

I don't think it should be hard.  At worst, we will find that HTML,
CSS, etc. have fewer syntactic entities than programming languages, so
maybe they will have fewer meaningful levels.

> My impression of the levels are 1 for absolute minimum, 2 for moderate, and 3 
> for maximum.

Right.

> Perhaps rough guidelines like this could be more helpful than specifying 
> syntactic entities for each level.

We could come up with such guidelines, yes.