Re: nxml-mode: Derive from prog-mode instead of text-mode

[Stefan Monnier]

>> What makes special-mode special is that ordinary character keys are
>> divorced from their usual self-insert meaning, instead, they are all
>> available for commands.
[...]
> What you say "makes special-mode special" has nothing specially
> to do with `special-mode'.  It's just `make-sparse-keymap'.

Huh?  make-sparse-keymap doesn't "divorced [ordinary characters] from
their usual self-insert meaning".
Are you maybe thinking of `suppress-keymap`?


        Stefan