GNU bug report logs - #19272
25.0.50; electric-indent-mode: Appears to do the opposite

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: raman <raman <at> google.com>

Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 17:36:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Merged with 16763

Found in versions 24.3.50, 25.0.50

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 19272 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
To: "T.V Raman" <raman <at> google.com>
Cc: 19272 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19272: 25.0.50; electric-indent-mode: Appears to do the
 opposite
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 15:58:24 +0000

On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 02:54:44PM -0800, T.V Raman wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation -- this is super helpful.

> One suggestion:  couldn't we just have both C-j and RET   do
> newline-and-then-indent?

AAAaarrgh!!!  Not as default, no.  People sometimes want to type in just
a newline from time to time.

Still, you are master of your own key map, and nothing stops you binding
C-j and RET appropriately.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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