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29.0.60; "Cannot activate tree-sitter" spam

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: jostein <at> kjonigsen.net
Cc: casouri <at> gmail.com, 60559 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, theo <at> thornhill.no, mardani29 <at> yahoo.es, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, larsi <at> gnus.org, epg <at> pretzelnet.org
Subject: bug#60559: 29.0.60; "Cannot activate tree-sitter" spam
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2023 10:12:22 +0200

> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 08:57:05 +0100
> Cc: 60559 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mardani29 <at> yahoo.es, epg <at> pretzelnet.org
> From: Jostein Kjønigsen <jostein <at> secure.kjonigsen.net>
> 
> On 05.01.2023 07:51, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > So here's a suggestion for such a solution: we make all the
> > *-ts-mode's optional.  That is, we don't add any of them to
> > auto-mode-alist unless the file *-ts-mode.el is loaded
> 
> So if I understand this correctly, the change is simply that people 
> wanting to use these modes now needs to do two things instead of one:
> 
> 1. build with tree-sitter support (already a requirement)
> 
> 2. will have to (require) the modes they want to use in their init.el 
> (the change)
> 
> Have I understood things correctly?

Yes, that's the idea.  We could also make the mode command be
autoloaded, so just "M-x foo-ts-mode RET" the first time will load the
mode, thus avoiding the need for require in the init files.  I guess
there will be users which will prefer one or the other.

> If so, that sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

Thanks.

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