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Re: Why flip RET and C-j with electric-indent-mode?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Why flip RET and C-j with electric-indent-mode? |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Nov 2014 09:50:51 +0200 |
> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 15:56:30 -0700
> From: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
>
> So why did emacs flip RET and C-j with electric-indent-mode?
Because users nowadays expect that.
> Here is the news entry.
>
> * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.4
>
> ** Indentation
>
> *** `electric-indent-mode' is now enabled by default.
> Typing RET reindents the current line and indents the new line.
> `C-j' inserts a newline but does not indent. In some programming modes,
> additional characters are electric (eg `{').
>
> *** New buffer-local `electric-indent-local-mode'.
>
> The change is to set electric-indent-mode all of the time. Even in
> fundamental-mode? That is a terrible thing to do to users. Rug.
> Standing on rug? Yank rug!
"C-h f newline RET" will have a suggestion that you will like, I
think.