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cc-mode does not obey electric-indent-mode

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From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
To: 15478 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15478: cc-mode does not obey electric-indent-mode
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 19:45:27 +0200

Am 03.10.2013 11:45, schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 12:10:16AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> That's because *you* like electric-indent-mode.  Not because C is special.
>>> Electric indentation is more useful in a language like C than it is in
>>> something like Python --- C has a richer set of brace characters.
>
>> Right: Python is indeed special because fully automatic indentation is
>> not really possible.  But C is not special in this respect.
>
> I.e., electric indentation needs to be off in Python.
>
>>> cc-mode's sophisticated syntactic indentation is an Emacs "killer feature".
>
>> The "sophisticated syntactic indentation" is also a killer feature for
>> Octave users, SML users, Lisp users, Javascript users, ...
>
> I.e., electric indentation needs to be on in C, Octave, .....
>
>>> Anyway, we should be showcasing it by default, using electric
>>> indentation, instead of hiding it behind configuration because users
>>> might want to lobotomize their indentation by rebinding <tab>.
>
>> That's arguing for changing the global default of electric-indent-mode.
>
> The global default should be On for C and Off for Python.
>

Agreed, learned this for now, thanks all,

Andreas

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