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Re: toml-ts-mode: first draft


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: toml-ts-mode: first draft
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 05:28:31 +0200

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 22:43:50 +0100
> Cc: juri@linkov.net, jostein@secure.kjonigsen.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, 
>  casouri@gmail.com, theo@thornhill.no
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > > Should json-ts-mode.el be moved to textmodes as well?
> >
> > I don't see why.  JSON is a programming feature, not text for human
> > consumption.
> 
> They are all just formats for structured data, just like XML.  You can
> write JSON files intended for human consumption (if by that you mean
> "meant to be edited by a human"), and you can use YAML/TOML to share
> data between programs.  That's just an aspect of how the format is
> used in a given application, and is not inherent to the format itself.
> 
> Just to give one example, Hugo supports configuration written in
> either one of YAML, TOML or JSON:
> https://gohugo.io/getting-started/configuration/#configuration-file

That's not enough of a reason to move json-ts-mode from its current
place.



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