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

[Drew Adams]

> > This probably could be unified, too. The big difference here is modes
> > that are neither text nor programming — I call them application modes
> > — such as dired, calendar, or compilation — because they don’t need
> 
> These should supposedly derive from special-mode.

Absolutely not, for Dired.  It should not derive from
special-mode, tabulated-list-mode, or anything else.

That's almost like saying that Emacs should derive
from special-mode. ;-)

(But Stefan has admitted that he rarely uses Dired.)