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:
(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