GNU bug report logs - #16156
electric indent gripes

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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
To: gnu-emacs-bug <at> moderators.isc.org
Subject: Re: bug#16156: 24.3.50;
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:06:43 +0000 (UTC)

Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> In text mode, if the buffer contains
> -----------------------------------------
> foo
>   bar
> -----------------------------------------

> and point is at the start of the second line, and I type RET,
> it gives

> -----------------------------------------
> foo

> bar
> -----------------------------------------

> This is clearly wrong.

RET is bound to `newline'.  `newline' now indents the new line created,
under certain arcane conditions which hold by default.

C-j is bound to `electric-indent-just-newline'.  This command doesn't
indent the new line created.

I also think this is not the right thing to do.

> -- 
> Dr Richard Stallman

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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