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From: Daniel Fleischer <danflscr@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should yaml-ts-mode inherit from prog-mode?
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2023 11:20:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m27cvmmiko.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m28rg2solk.fsf@hamburg.de

Ongaro [2023-03-11 Sat 18:14] wrote:

> If something is considered a "programming language" isn't defined by
> whether it has keywords. But we can ignore that, since yaml has quite a
> few keywords (e.g. see yaml-font-lock-keywords or others which are not...

If we look at font lock definitions, org-mode also highlights various
constructs; it doesn't mean it's a programming language. 

> Also not true. If you happen to use some of the keywords like "yes", you
> have to mind to quote it if you actually meant the string "yes" not a
> boolean value of true. Of course that is exactly where having a mode
> which highlights these keywords helps.

Please point out where in the YAML spec "yes" is used as a boolean. And
again, usefulness of highlighting different objects does not mean it's a
programming language. 

--
Daniel




  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-12  9:20 UTC|newest]

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
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 [this message]
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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