Re: An anonymous IRC user's opinion

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com>
> Cc: johan.myreen@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2024 22:14:32 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:25:40 +0300
> >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> >> 
> >> On 09/10/2024 16:13, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> > rust-ts-mode is part of
> >> > Emacs, and could be turned on automatically when a Rust file is
> >> > visited; we didn't do that because we are unsure whether users of an
> >> > unbundled Rust mode will protest
> >> 
> >> That seems unlikely: as long as the auto-mode-alist configuration for 
> >> rust-ts-mode is done early on in Emacs's startup, any installed 3rd 
> >> party package such as rust-mode would add its config later, and thus 
> >> have priority.
> >
> > I don't have objections to making Rust recognized automatically and
> > activating rust-ts-mode, if people think this danger is low or
> > non-existent, and if *.rs files are not commonly used for something
> > completely unrelated (e.g., I see on my Windows system quite a few
> > *.rs files that seem to be some kind of Windows data files).
> >
> 
> One thing to be cautious is that all *-ts-modes require tree-sitter
> syntax libraries to be available to use, which are not shipped with
> Emacs.

If a required grammar library is not available, the user gets a
warning.  So what is the problem here?