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

[Rudolf Schlatte]

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.