GNU bug report logs - #22564
Fundamental mode isn't fundamental enough.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 12:54:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 22564 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: 22564 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22564: Fundamental mode isn't fundamental enough.
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 16:46:09 +0200

> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 12:55:59 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
> 
> I've just tried to paste some text into a fundamental mode buffer, using
> GNU/Linux's GPM mouse utility.  It gets fouled up by some facility that
> decides I want some automatic indentation, despite being in fundamental
> mode.  As far as I understand, GPM does pasting by effectively typing a
> character at a time.

You want to turn off electric-indent-mode, I think.

> This is surely a bug.

No, it's a deliberate feature, AFAIU.
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