Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no>,  acm@muc.de,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org,  jostein@kjonigsen.net
> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 02:34:04 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> My suggestion is to add the tree-sitter variant in these cases, and let
> >> the other modes die a slow, deprecated death down the line.
> >> 
> >> What do you think?
> >
> > SGTM, but I'd like to hear from Lars as well.
> 
> It's somewhat confusing that we have some modes that are tree-sitter-only
> and some what can switch between using tree-sitter and not, but I guess
> that's inevitable.

We could arrange for a very minimal font-lock without tree-sitter
(like, for example, only strings and comments?), and use the defaults
for the indentation commands.  Theodor, can that be done with a
relatively small effort?

> But I think the in-tree tree-sitter typescript-mode will have to be
> called something else than the out-of-tree non-tree-sitter one, at
> least.

That's desirable, yes.