Re: electric-indent-mode: abolition of `newline' function is not the Right Thing.

[Matthias Meulien]

> (...) I discovered this whilst trying `electric-indent-mode' in 
> Text Mode. 

For the same reason it is impossible to write Python code with 
both `python-skeleton-autoinsert' set to t and Electric Indent 
mode enabled...

Say a buffer contains the following three lines:

class base(object): 
   pass 

-!-

Now you hit c l a s s SPC d e r i v e d RET b a s e RET RET
which results in:

class base(object): 
   pass 

   class derived(base):
       """-!-""" 

Unexpected isn't it?
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Matthias Meulien