GNU bug report logs - #1396
Idea: unify *newline(-and-indent)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Daniel Colascione <danc <at> merrillpress.com>

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:30:03 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Daniel Colascione <danc <at> merrillpress.com>
Cc: 1396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1396: Idea: unify *newline(-and-indent)
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2021 12:10:03 +0200
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

>> I'm not even counting all the modes that aren't in CVS, or all the  
>> (reindent-)newline(-and-indent) functions grep couldn't find. Why do  
>> we need so many functions for essentially the same thing?
>
> I had a look at a handful, and they don't really do the same thing.  For
> instance octave-reindent-then-newline-and-indent does some upcasing, and
> message-newline-and-reformat inserts four newlines.

So I'm closing this bug report.  It may be that some of these functions
should be unified, but that has to be done on a case-to-case basis.

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