Re: Rename Tree-sitter major modes from "ts" to "treesit" (was Re: tree-sitter version?)

[Theodor Thornhill]

On 26 November 2022 09:31:45 CET, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 00:20:00 -0800
>> Cc: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>,
>>  tsdh@gnu.org,
>>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> > On Nov 25, 2022, at 8:25 AM, Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es> wrote:
>> > 
>> > "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:
>> > 
>> >> also the   name "ts" as part of tree-sitter is an unfortunate
>> >> confusion since ts-mode is for typescript.
>> >> 
>> >> I initally wrongly assumed that ts-mode was some kind of global mode
>> >> that would enable tree-support for all supported modes, given the
>> >> names c-ts-mode etc.
>> > 
>> > This is a good point.  The Tree-sitter Elisp library itself and its
>> > commands already use the "treesit" abbreviation consistently.  We're
>> > still on time to rename the new language modes to c-treesit-mode, and so
>> > on.  Thoughts?
>> 
>> Yeah we should use treesit, if nothing better appears. We had a (short) 
>> discussion on better names than xxx-ts-mode, but no one had better idea, so 
>> the name stuck.
>
>Sorry, no more renames, and that is final.  The branching point for emacs-29
>is almost upon us, and we cannot afford such changes anymore.  The
>justification is quite weak anyway.  People who think "ts" means only
>"typescript" will have to adapt.  (The tree-sitter library has all of its
>functions start with "ts_", so we didn't invent this shorthand out of thin
>air.)
>

Ok :)

Theo