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

[Po Lu]

Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no> writes:

> Well, we are not talking just about fontification, but we will get all
> sorts of ast-powered benefits.  Navigation, speed, movement, context
> aware deletion/inserting and more. There's a whole body of ingenious
> stuff that's been made in other editors with this framework.  They will
> immediately be relevant for emacs as well. This is much too simplistic a
> view, I'm afraid.

Interesting.  I understand that tree-sitter is faster, but could you
please explain what you mean by "context aware deletion/insertion"?

> My point was that I'd consider it unfair to Alan (though he should
> answer that himself) moving the C# variant to core, because that would
> inevitably but even more stress on him.  _Every_ time I've had some
> issues maintaining some problems in C# mode it has caused weeks of work
> for Alan.

Then I guess I misunderstood what you said.