Should haskell-cabal mode derive from prog-mode?

[cumber]

Back in #86 haskell-mode was updated to derive from prog-mode rather than fundamental-mode. Should haskell-cabal mode follow suit?

At the moment basic configuration I want to apply to all programming modes (or even all programming and text modes, but not things like menus) has to additionally single out haskell-cabal mode.

[purcell]

Should haskell-cabal mode follow suit?

Not really, sorry. If you look at other configuration and markup modes (conf-toml-mode, yaml-mode, xml-mode), you won't find prog-mode among the parent modes.

[purcell]

However, I noticed haskell-cabal-mode also wasn't derived from text-mode, which would be typical, so I've just changed the mode so that it is. That should ease your configuration a bit.

[cumber]

Yeah, I wasn't sure which would be most appropriate. I ended up suggesting prog-mode since "Text mode is a major mode for editing human languages" according to https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Basic-Major-Modes.html. I suppose markup languages are often used to mark-up content that is human-language text, but cabal file content really doesn't feel like "text" to me.

But I'm fine with a ruling that text-mode is more appropriate here. Thanks!

[purcell]

Agree, yaml also doesn't feel like text to me. Or XML for that matter! But they are both derived from text-mode.