GNU bug report logs - #54502
Subject: 28.0.92; wrong info for RET

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>

Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 14:43:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 54502 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
Cc: 54502 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54502: Subject: 28.0.92; wrong info for RET
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:55:45 +0200

> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:34:21 +0100
> Cc: 54502 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
> 
> 
> Am 21.03.22 um 15:55 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
> >> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 15:41:57 +0100
> >> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
> >>
> >> C-h k RET tells
> >>
> >> [...]
> >> Insert a newline, and move to left margin of the new line.
> >>
> >> ----
> >>
> >> "Left margin"  is not the case from Emacs -Q, where it indents that newline.
> > The doc strings says more than that.  It also says:
> >
> >    If ‘electric-indent-mode’ is enabled, this indents the final new line
> >    that it adds, and reindents the preceding line.  To just insert
> >    a newline, use M-x electric-indent-just-newline.
> >
> > And if you evaluate electric-indent-mode, you will see that it is
> > enabled in your case.
> 
> 
> So the first line does not express the default, but the customized case.
> 
> Don't think it's good.

It does describe the default, but electric-indent-mode is nowadays
turned on in many modes.  Thus the addition.
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