Subject: bug#16770: Erroneous interaction between electric-indent-mode and electric-indent-local-mode

From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 17:12:14 +0000

Hi, Emacs.

1. Start emacs -Q.
2. Visit, successively, two random buffers foo and bar.
3. In buffer foo, do M-x electric-indent-local-mode.
4. In buffer bar, do M-x electric-indent-mode.

Both buffers now have e-i-mode disabled.

5. Still in buffer bar, do M-x electric-indent-mode.

This, being a global mode, should enable e-i-mode in all buffers.  But
in buffer foo, electric-indent-mode remains disabled.  This is a bug.

Suggestion for a fix: make electric-indent-local-mode a self-sufficient
minor mode, and define electric-indent-mode with
define-globalized-minor-mode.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).