Subject: bug#60691: 29.0.60; Slow tree-sitter font-lock in ruby-ts-mode

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 10:01:12 +0200

> From: Yuan Fu <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 23:51:05 -0800
> Cc: [email-masked],
>  [email-masked],
>  [email-masked],
>  [email-masked]
> 
> > Yes, DEFSYM is better in such cases.  The C name can be QCquestion and
> > QCasterix, for example.
> 
> My worry is that they will conflict with, eg, symbol `question’ and `asterix’, if someone ever defines them in the C codebase. Is that not possible?

It's possible, but how can a symbol conflict in that case? it will
just be reused.

But if you want to have treesit-specific symbols, you can use names
like QCasterix_treesit.