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

[Theodor Thornhill]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no>
>> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jostein@kjonigsen.net
>> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 09:23:41 +0200
>> 
>> >> Sure, I can rename it to tsx-mode, because that's the parser being used.
>> >
>> > SGTM.
>> >
>> 
>> Good, I'll integrate js.el into typescript-mode.el
>> 
>> >> Why is that desirable, though? 
>> >
>> > It prevents user confusion and conflicts, I guess?
>> 
>> In many cases, yes, but in the Typescript case most users will be
>> advised to move on from that mode.  I don't really think there should be
>> an issue - that repo can be archived when we have reasonable support.
>> Jostein and/or others should of course chime in on this.
>> 
>> How about we let it live as typescript-mode.el for now, and I can
>> absolutely make sure the renaming happens should we decide to do so.
>
> My personal preference is to avoid conflicts even if we consider them
> unlikely and/or desirable.


OK, I'll think of some name.  Defaulting to js works just fine, btw.  So
now we have vanilla support also in the new typescript mode.  In this
case we avoided the tree-sitter requirement, which is nice!

Theo