Re: Should yaml-ts-mode inherit from prog-mode?

[Basil Contovounesios]

Romanos Skiadas [2023-02-28 14:24 +0200] wrote:

> I was using yaml-ts-mode in Emacs 30, and to my surprise I found it inherits 
> from text-mode.
>
> Now, a case can be made for that for sure. The existing rather widely used 
> mode uses text-mode, although that seems like an arbitrary
> decision by a single maintainer:
> https://github.com/yoshiki/yaml-mode/issues/17
> https://github.com/yoshiki/yaml-mode/issues/27 
> https://github.com/yoshiki/yaml-mode/issues/52
> https://github.com/yoshiki/yaml-mode/pull/85
>
> (I'm not sure Emacs maintainers are beholden to a decision made some jumps 
> away and whether this is a strong enough argument to
> keep yaml-ts-mode as is.)
>
> However, and here is where things kind of break down a bit: I would 
> personally argue that YAML has a code feel to it, what with all the
> bash scripts that end up in it. Personally, I feel that YAML is more of a 
> prog language than JSON (whatever that means), and according to
> the spec it is a superset of JSON. In fact, the JSON mode shipped with Emacs 
> inherits from prog-mode!
>
> So, what do people think? Should yaml-ts-mode be changed?

[ Copying in Randy, yaml-ts-mode's author/maintainer. ]

FWIW, my vote is for treating YAML and JSON consistently: if all three
JSON modes in Emacs and GNU ELPA are prog-modes, then so should
yaml-ts-mode; or if yaml-ts-mode is a text-mode, then so should all
three JSON modes.

I suspect most of that ship if not the entire thing has already sailed,
especially in the case of the more established json-mode, but there's
always hope ;).

Thanks,

-- 
Basil