Re: Org mode behavior change in 27.2 (org-adapt-indentation)

[Mike Kupfer]

Tim Cross wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 at 05:15, Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 
>  I upgraded from 27.1 to 27.2-rc2 over the weekend and noticed that Org
>  mode behaves differently, even with "emacs -Q".
> 
>  In 27.1, if I visit foo.org and type "* header RET", point is put in the
>  first column.  In 27.2, point is put in column 3.
> 
>  This behavior is apparently controlled by org-adapt-indentation, which
>  is t in both 27.1 and 27.2.  So maybe the behavior change is the result
>  of a bug fix?  Should this be documented in NEWS somewhere?
> 
> This is actually a side effect of org now honouring
> electric-indent-mode. 

Ah, I see now.  I didn't even realize electric-indent-mode was
enabled--it doesn't appear in the minor mode list in the modeline, nor
does it appear in the minor mode mode-line menu. :-(

Thanks for explaining.

mike