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

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Message #164 received at 68246 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 68246 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, casouri <at> gmail.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,
 joaotavora <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#68246: 30.0.50; Add non-TS mode as extra parent of TS modes
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2024 21:57:10 +0200

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 11:18:41 -0800
> Cc: 68246 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, casouri <at> gmail.com, joaotavora <at> gmail.com
> 
> 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?

No.  The "language" there is "text", except that it's silly to call
that "language".

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