GNU bug report logs - #18764
24.4; electric-indent in *scratch* signals an error

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:00:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, fixed, patch

Found in versions 24.4, 26.1

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 18764 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18764: 24.4; electric-indent in *scratch* signals an error
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:33:34 +0300

On 6/17/18 6:48 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I submit that any errors in code that tries to indent should be
> suppressed, as they are not relevant to what the user wanted.  If
> those errors are important in other contexts, they will pop up there,
> and can then decide what to do with them.

That's going to make user complaints like "why it doesn't indent" or "it 
doesn't indent right" harder to debug and address.
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