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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 28/02/2023 19:56, Daniel Fleischer wrote:
> I think yaml doesn't look at all like a programming language. There are
> no keywords, only free text. The bash scripts you mention are defined in
> terms of a multi line string but these strings can contain anything, not
> just code snippets. There's no need for parenthesis or oven quotation
> marks, it's very lax. It looks much more like free text than a
> structured language.

That's fair impression, but it might not hurt to inherit from prog-mode too.

One criterion that somebody wise once proposed, is whether the language 
has or requires some specific indentation logic, one that's totally 
different from indent-relative.

YAML passes that test solidly. And I'm talking about its basic 
structure, not bash (or JSON, or etc) insertions.