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Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'.
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'. |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Nov 2015 22:15:29 +0200 |
> From: John Wiegley <address@hidden>
> Cc: Karl Fogel <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:13:34 -0800
>
> >>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > People who don't like electric-indent-mode can just turn it off, can't they?
> > Why argue about defaults when they can be so easily changed?
>
> This is more about people who want to use electric-indent-mode, but don't want
> it changing previous defaults in a way that doesn't seem to be related to
> electric-indent-mode.
Having the cake and eating it, too? I'd love that! But it isn't
always possible.
> I can imagine a new user experiencing this and having no clue that
> electric-indent-mode is the reason: Because it is enabled by default for them
> in 25.1 -- they never consciously turned it on to notice the difference in
> behavior -- so they wouldn't know it's coming from that source.
New users don't have past experience with Emacs, so they won't know
there's something here that wasn't so before.
> Why is something like this being enabled by default, again? Or did I misread?
> I would expect any kind of automated behavior like this to be opt-in.
You are welcome to re-reading the past discussions about
electric-indent-mode. Good luck keeping your sanity while at that ;-)
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'., (continued)
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'., Andreas Schwab, 2015/11/12
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'., Artur Malabarba, 2015/11/12
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'., Rasmus, 2015/11/12
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'., Yuri Khan, 2015/11/12
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'., Rasmus, 2015/11/12
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'., Yuri Khan, 2015/11/12
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'., David Kastrup, 2015/11/12
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'., David Kastrup, 2015/11/12
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'., Artur Malabarba, 2015/11/12
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'., Rasmus, 2015/11/12
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'.,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'., John Wiegley, 2015/11/11
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/11/11
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'., John Wiegley, 2015/11/11
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'., Alan Mackenzie, 2015/11/11
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'., John Wiegley, 2015/11/11
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/11/11
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'., Artur Malabarba, 2015/11/11
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'., Paul Eggert, 2015/11/11
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'., John Wiegley, 2015/11/11
- Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/11/11