Subject: Re: bug#16155: 24.3.50;

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:19:24 -0500

>> It is a minor mode.  Called electric-indent-mode, and no enabled by default.
                                                         ^^
                                                         now
>> See NEWS.

> electric-indent-mode _is_ enabled by default in the current trunk.

Indeed, as mentioned in NEWS.

> Again, the question: why should `newline' indent when we've got the specific
> command `newline-and-indent'?

Because apparently most users like it.  You don't, so turn it off in
your ~/.emacs.

        Stefan