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

[Brian Cully via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>]

Rudolf Schlatte <rudi@constantly.at> writes:

> Most yaml files "in the wild" are configuration files (for 
> Kubernetes,
> ansible, and other "modern" tools), so in practice yaml-mode is 
> much
> closer to json-mode and lisp-data-mode, both of which derive 
> from
> prog-mode.

The distinction, for me, is that YAML is highly structured text, 
which will fail to parse intelligibly for everything that tries to 
use it if that structure is ignored or malformed. It is intended 
primarily for machine interpretation, not human. Contrast that to 
Org, which is obviously intended primarily for humans, with 
structural elements specifically chosen so that it is intelligible 
by humans in the absence of org-mode entirely, and is still quite 
usable even with malfored structure. Org is, primarily, for 
prose. YAML is for instructing a machine. If your job is telling a 
machine what to do, you're a prog-mode, in my book.

And count me in as someone who has to jump through a bunch of 
hoops to get yaml-mode working “correctly” due to it being based 
on text mode.

-bjc