bug#64487: 29.0.92; Another tree-sitter warning inside Custom

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06/07/2023 12:12, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2023 14:56:44 +0800
> > From:  Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> >   the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> >
> > Type M-x customize RET.  Click Programming and then Languages.  A
> > *Warnings* buffer will be displayed containing the following message:
> >
> >    Warning (treesit): Cannot activate tree-sitter, because language
> >    grammar for ruby is unavailable (not-found): (libtree-sitter-ruby
> >    libtree-sitter-ruby.0 libtree-sitter-ruby.0.0 libtree-sitter-ruby.so
> >    libtree-sitter-ruby.so.0 libtree-sitter-ruby.so.0.0) No such file or
> >    directory
>
> When you customize a group, Custom loads all the packages that belong
> to the group.  So in this case it loads ruby-ts-mode, and you get the
> warning.

Which was never a problem before when simply loading a package didn't 
alter auto-mode-alist.

> > Can't these messages only be displayed when a tree-sitter major mode is
> > enabled, as opposed to whenever the file implementing the major mode is
> > loaded?
>
> Emacs 29 deliberately checks for the grammar's availability when the
> package is loaded, to give users a prominent indication that the
> loaded package will not work.  This won't change in Emacs 29, but
> maybe as part of rethinking this after releasing Emacs 29 we could
> improve the situation with customizing a group as well.
>
> Anyway, the warning is just a warning, and is otherwise harmless.  It
> also only appears when Emacs has been built with tree-sitter, but the
> grammar libraries required by some *-ts-mode's are not installed.

Suppose the grammar is actually available. Perhaps the user had compiled 
it at some point, or perhaps it's installed system-wide due to another 
dependency.

Do I understand it right that performing the simple steps that Po Lu 
outlined would silently assign ruby-ts-mode to *.rb files? And a bunch 
of other such modes that get loaded as well. But only until the end of 
the session.