bug#68246: 30.0.50; Add non-TS mode as extra parent of TS modes

[João Távora]

On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 3:49 AM Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> Of course, if you want to use other symbols for the content types, that
> works as well, e.g.:
>
>     emacs --eval '(progn (add-to-list `auto-mode-alist `("\\.myf$" . 
> text/html)) (add-to-list `major-mode-remap-alist `(text/html . html-mode)))' 
> ~/tmp/foo.myf

OK, I get it.  This form above is very elegant.

I had already understood the gist from Dmitry's  email and if
more symbols are allowed there (notably symbols with names
matching the MIME type hierarchy), then I think it's mostly fine.

"Mostly" because of the fact that cdrs of entries in m-m-r-alist
are supposed to be functions and major-mode is a symbol, which
makes for brittle reverse lookups.

And then there's still the work of filling it in and changing
auto-mode-alist.  This is mostly mechanical work though.  I can
volunteer if this approach is validated.

Also, writing m-m-r-alist is not incompatible to passing a
:content-type keyword arg to define-derived-mode, which
I still think is the most natural way to maintain this
database.

João