bug#16763: 24.3.50; electric-indent annoyance: C-j doesn't indent

[raman]

This has been bothering me for a while when writing lisp code --
started happening roughly a few months ago.

I always hit C-j for newline, and a couple of months ago, this
stopped indenting -- by default C-j runs
 control j  runs the command electric-indent-just-newline
when electric-indent-mode is on.

The documentation for electric-mode indicates that indentation
will be invoked when you type any of the chars in
electric-indent-chars  -- and that variable is set to a list
containing ?\n which is  ascii 10; yet, C-j invokes a command
that explicitly only inserts a newline? (feeling very confused )





In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.1)
 of 2014-02-01 on labrador
Repository revision: %N
System Description:     Ubuntu 9.04

Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/usr/local'

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
  recentf-mode: t
  csv-field-index-mode: t
  gpm-mouse-mode: t
  global-semantic-idle-summary-mode: t
  global-semanticdb-minor-mode: t
  semantic-mode: t
  savehist-mode: t
  ido-everywhere: t
  display-time-mode: t
  auto-insert-mode: t
  jabber-activity-mode: t
  jabber-mode-line-mode: t
  erc-list-mode: t
  erc-menu-mode: t
  erc-autojoin-mode: t
  erc-ring-mode: t
  erc-networks-mode: t
  erc-pcomplete-mode: t
  erc-track-mode: t
  erc-match-mode: t
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  erc-fill-mode: t
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  desktop-save-mode: t
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  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: t
  auto-fill-function: do-auto-fill
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-x C-s C-h c C-j C-e M C-x C-s ESC [ [ D C-x @ h s 
c d RET c d SPC e m TAB l i TAB e m TAB RET s v n SPC 
c i SPC - m SPC " " ; SPC m a k e RET C-h V e l e c 
TAB i n d TAB RET C-h f e l e c t r i TAB i n d TAB 
m TAB RET ESC m ESC [ [ D C-h G e l e c t r i TAB SPC 
i TAB DEL TAB ESC DEL ESC DEL C-g C-h ESC f e l e c 
t r i TAB i n d TAB m TAB RET ESC < C-e m C-x h C-s 
d e f c u s ESC < C-h ESC v e l e c t r i TAB i n d 
TAB m TAB RET ESC m C-e m C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
ESC m C-p C-n C-n C-h c C-j C-h v e l e c t r i c SPC 
i n d TAB c h TAB RET ESC m C-n C-n C-n C-n ESC C-e 
ESC C-j e l e c t r i TAB i n d TAB c h TAB ESC DEL 
C-g C-e h C-h ESC v e l e c t r i TAB i n d TAB c h 
TAB RET ESC m C-e e ESC [ D ESC [ D ESC [ D ESC [ C 
ESC [ C C-x C-e C-e a C-n C-h ESC k C-j ESC m C-n C-n 
C-x m ESC [ [ D n ESC x r e p o r t SPC e m a TAB b 
TAB RET

Recent messages:
uncompressing electric.el.gz...done
Note: file is write protected
Marked buffer containing 393 lines
 control j  runs the command electric-indent-just-newline

Quit 
10 (#o12, #xa, ?\C-j)
Composing a message
Save `mail to _' as draft in folder `postponed'? (y or n)  n
`mail to _ on ""' is gone forever!

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