bug#68246: 30.0.50; Add non-TS mode as extra parent of TS modes

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 08/01/2024 21:57, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Stefan Kangas<stefankangas@gmail.com>
> > Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 11:18:41 -0800
> > Cc:68246@debbugs.gnu.org,casouri@gmail.com,joaotavora@gmail.com
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii<eliz@gnu.org>  writes:
> >
> > > Please don't call it "language".  That'd be confusing.  LSP is about
> > > programming languages, so "language" is natural there.  But in Emacs,
> > > a major mode is more general than that.  For example, it is not
> > > unthinkable to consider mail-mode to be the extra-parent of
> > > message-mode (or vice versa) -- but what is the "language" in that
> > > case?
> > Isn't the language for such modes in this paradigm just the empty set?
> No.  The "language" there is "text", except that it's silly to call
> that "language".

If it was just "text", we wouldn't need different highlighting rules in 
message-mode or log-edit-mode, would we?