nxml-mode: Derive from prog-mode instead of text-mode

["Jostein Kjønigsen" <jostein@secure.kjonigsen.net>]

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Hey everyone.

One thing I find unintuitive about nxml-mode is how it derives from
text-mode.
The reason this surprises me is that when I edit XML-files, I almost
exclusively (to the point of not being able to remember an exception) am
working with programming-related tasks.
Therefore I expect my prog-mode-hook to have fired, and my prog-mode
settings and key-bindings to be in effect (compile, projectile-
navigation, commenting/uncommenting, etc etc).
But no. I have my text-mode settings instead (spell-checking, etc),
which often conflict with what I want to get done.
Could we consider changing nxml-mode to derive from prog-mode instead?

While it can be considered a "breaking"-change, I think this would make
much more sense. And such a change is not entirely unprecedented either:
css-mode made the same transistion back in 2015. [1]
I can provide the patch for it, but first I thought I'd first check what
people's opinion on such a change would be.
[1] https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/f21d9b6e4461719cece6ad4adc85ea84ddc5a4e0
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 Yours truly
Jostein Kjønigsen

jostein@kjonigsen.net 🍵 jostein@gmail.com
https://jostein.kjonigsen.net


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