Re: Make all tree-sitter modes optional

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 16/02/2023 10:34, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I don't know yet.  We should definitely think about this more.  Emacs
> never had more than a single major mode per programming language, so
> for us "language" and "major mode" were always synonyms.  (Perl mode
> and CPerl mode is the only exception I know of, and it did cause us
> grief.)
>
> So yes, this is a new situation that could call for some new concepts
> in Emacs.

The relevant helps could make use of major-mode-remap-alist somehow. 
According to NEWS, it was introduced more or less for this purpose.