Re: emacs + donation

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: d paddy <d0.paddy@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:35:36 -0500
> Cc: d paddy <d0.paddy@gmail.com>
> 
> key 1 :  1
> key 2 :  2
> key 3 :  3
> key 4 :  enter
> key 5 :  space
> key 6 :  space
> key 7 :  space
> key 8 :  enter
> key 9 :  5
> key 10: 6
> key 11: 7
> 
> The word count utility reports only eight bytes in the file "example" --
> even though I typed eleven --  and hexl-mode shows those bytes are
> 
> byte 1 : 31
> byte 2 : 32
> byte 3 : 33
> byte 4 : 0a
> byte 5 : 0a
> byte 6 : 34
> byte 7 : 35
> byte 8 : 36
> 
> Emacs evidently changes my input. How do I cajole emacs into reflecting
> exactly what I type?

Turn off electric-indent-mode.  When that mode is turned on (as it is
by default), typing RET removes trailing whitespace from the previous
line.