bug#37183: 26.2 Never for Tab-Always-Indent

[Stefan Kangas]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Charles Jackson <charles.b.jackson@protonmail.com> writes:
>
>> The `tab-always-indent' variable should have a 'never' option that
>> will make TAB just insert a tab character without indenting at all.
>
> I think that might make sense...  On the other hand, you can just
> globally set the TAB key to insert a TAB character, so I'm not quite
> sure whether it's very useful.
>
> Does anybody have an opinion here?

(How would you set it globally?  If you use `global-set-key' any local
bindings would shadow it, right?)

FWIW, I think the option makes sense, with or without the ability to set
it in another way.  It's a logical addition and could make things easier
for users.