From: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com>
To: Vasilij Schneidermann <mail@vasilij.de>
Cc: Randy Taylor <dev@rjt.dev>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Should yaml-ts-mode inherit from prog-mode?
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2023 07:55:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM=F=bDS+s_+9v=Vfx4qkM-jE2NgP+q5+CUeOnu6n2XP+kEk=g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Wed, Mar 1, 2023, 11:36 AM Vasilij Schneidermann <mail@vasilij.de> wrote:
>
> > Deriving from prog-mode feels weird since YAML is not a programming
> > language.
>
> Yes, that was pretty much my reasoning. To quote the `prog-mode`
> docstring: "Major mode for editing programming language source code."
>
> Unless there's some XSLT equivalent for YAML, I do not see it being
> programming language source code at all.
>
Perhaps "programming language" is intended to mean that a given file is
"legal" is decidable (which lets TeX off the hook).
YAML has been argued to be several things (configuration,
> serialization, text) and having to choose one in particular cannot work
> out in a satisfying way unless it's about a very basic property not
> based on opinion
>
The YAML spec is insistent that it is a data serialization format.
Lynn
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-28 12:24 Should yaml-ts-mode inherit from prog-mode? Romanos Skiadas
2023-02-28 15:52 ` Basil Contovounesios
2023-03-01 14:08 ` Randy Taylor
2023-03-01 14:28 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-03-01 16:35 ` Vasilij Schneidermann
2023-03-02 12:55 ` Lynn Winebarger [this message]
2023-03-02 13:44 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-03-03 9:00 ` Rudolf Schlatte
2023-03-03 21:58 ` Yuan Fu
2023-03-04 18:45 ` Juri Linkov
2023-02-28 17:50 ` Daniel Fleischer
2023-02-28 17:56 ` Daniel Fleischer
2023-02-28 18:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-01 13:35 ` Basil Contovounesios
2023-03-12 2:14 ` Ongaro
2023-03-12 9:20 ` Daniel Fleischer
2023-03-12 12:31 ` Rudolf Schlatte
2023-03-13 8:44 ` Yuri Khan
2023-03-14 1:45 ` David Ongaro
2023-03-01 7:46 ` Matthias Meulien
2023-03-01 13:45 ` Basil Contovounesios
2023-03-07 11:27 ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2023-03-07 14:28 ` Matthias Meulien
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-03-02 19:07 Romanos Skiadas
2023-03-03 4:23 ` Richard Stallman
2023-03-04 18:24 ` Romanos Skiadas
2023-03-20 1:52 ` Randy Taylor
2023-03-20 12:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-20 14:37 ` Rudolf Schlatte
2023-03-20 16:20 ` Brian Cully via Emacs development discussions.
2023-03-20 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-21 11:19 ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2023-03-21 13:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-21 13:54 ` Rudolf Schlatte
2023-03-21 14:43 ` Yuri Khan
2023-03-21 15:03 ` Rudolf Schlatte
2023-03-22 6:04 ` Yuri Khan
2023-03-22 2:37 ` David Ongaro
2023-03-21 3:13 ` Randy Taylor
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