Subject: Re: bug#24766: 26.0.50: [PATCH] Confusing behaviour for indent-relative-maybe

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 11:23:22 +0300

> From: Alex <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 14:43:57 -0600
> 
> What about changing `indent-relative-maybe' and adding an extra argument
> to `indent-relative'? Since `indent-relative-maybe' has had that
> docstring for a good 15 years, and the name fits the new behaviour more.
> 
> Then in Emacs core we can replace the single instance of it with
> (indent-relative t). The corresponding diff:

I'd prefer a backward-compatible change, i.e. make the new argument be
the 2nd one, and keep the current behavior when the 1st arg is non-nil
and the 2nd is nil or omitted.

Also, please add the necessary text to the doc string to document the
new argument.

Thanks.