bug#74461: [PATCH] Add go-work-ts-mode

[Gabriel Santos]

>It was a kind of rethorical question: whether we do or not, we *should*
>have such a mechanism and we should use it here.

Oh definitely, another point for discussion.

>> Go uses tabs for indentation,
>> and spaces for alignment.
>[...]
>> The language specification doesn't mention
>> that, but I think it should.
>> Maybe I should send them an e-mail about that.
>
>I don't think the language cares (or should care).  It's only a convention.
>
>But if it's the only convention in use in Go, that's fine: just add
>a link to https://go.dev/doc/effective_go#formatting that justifies
>the setting.

I added it to the commentary section:

+;; Go uses tabs as a convention for indentation:
+;; https://go.dev/doc/effective_go#formatting
+;; so indent-tabs-mode is enabled for the modes.

>>>Since we don't have another (non-treesitter) mode for these files, I'd
>>>recommend you go straight for:
>>>
>>>    ;;;###autoload
>>>    (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("/go\\.work\\'" . go-work-ts-mode))
>>
>>
>> Sorry if I misunderstand,
>> but that doesn't seem to be the case
>> for other tree-sitter modes.
>
>Past practice does not always reflect best practices, especially when
>talking about relatively new practices.

I'll change that, but after this is accepted
I'll make this change to the other modes,
CCing emacs-devel and the respective maintainers.


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Gabriel Santos