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

[Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>]

> On Mar 3, 2023, at 1:00 AM, Rudolf Schlatte <rudi@constantly.at> wrote:
> 
> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
> 
>> Deriving from prog-mode or from text-mode doesn't mean much in practice.
>> I see it as less of a formal taxonomy of programming languages, and more
>> of a convenience measure to make changes that (vaguely speaking) "all
>> programming modes" or "all text-related modes" have in common.  E.g. I
>> have this in my init.el:
>> 
>>  (add-hook 'text-mode-hook #'flyspell-mode)
>>  (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook #'flyspell-prog-mode)
> 
> Similarly, I use variable-width fonts for text mode buffers and fixed
> width fonts for prog-mode buffers.  Since in yaml indentation is
> significant, it would be preferrable for me to have yaml-mode inherit
> from prog-mode, if only for convenience's sake.
> 
> 

Agreed. I think of prog-mode as “programming mode” as opposed to “prose mode”, aka text-mode. In that sense, deriving from prog-mode makes more sense to me.

In text related to programming, one would assume monospace font, flyspell-prog-mode, structured text, etc.

Yuan