YAML is a data serialization format. Like JSON.

As a user of ELPA's yaml-mode, I was surprised too it isn't coherent with
lisp-data-mode, js-json-mode, json-ts-mode who all inherit from prog-mode.
And I had to disable the input method I usually enable in text mode
buffers, re-enable flymake and my shortcut for
flymake-show-diagnostics-buffer...

Since yaml-ts-mode is new it'd be a good thing to be coherent.

But thinking twice is there any concrete gains of inheriting from prog-mode
rather than text-mode for the end-user?
Don't we already face that dilemna with nxml since XML is used to serialize
data?


Le mar. 28 févr. 2023 à 15:14, Romanos Skiadas <rom.skiad@gmail.com> a
écrit :

> Hello,
>
> 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?
>
> Best,
> rski
>
>
>
>

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Matthias