From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Fleischer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should yaml-ts-mode inherit from prog-mode? Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 19:50:24 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34927"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:am1FCGHWGAm5WXext0I9NLMyG84= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 28 19:15:14 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pX4VO-0008yq-J0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2023 19:15:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pX4Uu-00080E-U3; Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:14:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pX47Z-0003dO-6M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2023 12:50:38 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pX47X-0003b2-9x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2023 12:50:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pX47S-0007cQ-KX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2023 18:50:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: 5 X-Spam_score: 0.5 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD=1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:14:42 -0500 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:303862 Archived-At: Romanos Skiadas writes: > I was using yaml-ts-mode in Emacs 30, and to my surprise I found it inherits from text-mode. > 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! I think yaml doesn't look at all like a programming language. There are no keywords, only free text. The bash scripts you mention are defined in terms of a multi line string but these strings can contain anything, not just code snippets. There's no need for parenthesis or oven quotation marks, it's very lax. It looks much more a free text than a structured language. -- Daniel Fleischer