GNU bug report logs - #68246
30.0.50; Add non-TS mode as extra parent of TS modes

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Message #158 received at 68246 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 68246 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, casouri <at> gmail.com, joaotavora <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#68246: 30.0.50; Add non-TS mode as extra parent of TS modes
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 11:18:41 -0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Please don't call it "language".  That'd be confusing.  LSP is about
> programming languages, so "language" is natural there.  But in Emacs,
> a major mode is more general than that.  For example, it is not
> unthinkable to consider mail-mode to be the extra-parent of
> message-mode (or vice versa) -- but what is the "language" in that
> case?

Isn't the language for such modes in this paradigm just the empty set?

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