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

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Martin.

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 08:28:22PM +0200, martin rudalics wrote:
>  > And people calling `newline' do not simply want a \n.  They want
>  > abbreviations to be processed, they want auto-fill to be run, trailing
>  > space to be removed from otherwise blank lines, and so on.  What they
>  > _don't_ want is indentation inserted on the new line.

> What I want is RET to always indent the new line.  And when I'm at the
> beginning of a line I want that RET opens a new line here and indents
> it.  And that's why I'm hopelessly lost when I have to work with emacs
> -Q.

With respect, that is not the topic of this thread.  That topic is that
with electric-indent-mode enabled, there is now no command, also no
elisp function which has the traditional functionality of `newline'.
That is a significant loss to Emacs.  The change in the functionality of
`newline' will break existing elisp code which calls `newline'.  Also,
there will be no way for a user to set up traditional Emacs behaviour
wrt <ret> and C-j.

For what you want, `newline-and-indent' exists, as you know.

> martin
>