Re: Accidental change of behaviour for electric-layout-mode?

[Morgan Willcock]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Morgan Willcock <morgan@ice9.digital>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:50:19 +0100
>> 
>> Just to make sure everything works in Emacs 30, I'd rather just revert
>> the accidental change than get further involved in the development of
>> this feature (at least in the short term).
>> 
>> I've attached a patch which just reverts the change that was
>> accidentally applied.  This should be all that is needed unless you
>> specifically want to accommodate features which accidentally worked in
>> an unreleased version of Emacs.
>
> Actually, having the variable is better, because we have run with this
> code for quite some time, and someone might rely on the unintended
> feature.  So I think your original patch is better.

Possibly it depends on whether there will be an additional pretest
release or not?  If there was going to be one and it was accompanied by
a note to re-test any changes which were made to electric-layout-mode
rules, that might be enough.

-- 
Morgan Willcock