Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'.

[David Kastrup]

John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Maybe I'm missing something, but I think this behavior doesn't happen when
>> electric-indent-mode is off, which it was in previous versions of Emacs.
>> Isn't that true?
>
> Correct. We have several things in play here:
>
>   1. When electric-indent-mode is off, everything is fine.
>
>   2. When electric-indent-mode is on, C-o behaves in an unexpected fashion.
>
>   3. We should fix C-o when electric-indent-mode is on, so its behavior is not
>      affected by electric-indent-mode.
>
>   4. We should disable electric-indent-mode by default.
>
> Since I wasn't present for the discussion when electric-indent-mode was
> enabled by default, I'd like to reopen that discussion with regard to 25.1.
> Probably on a separate thread from this one.

I'm reasonably fine with electric-indent-mode by default I think.  But
_exactly_ when electric-indent-mode is on, the need for a dumb C-o is
largest for me.

-- 
David Kastrup