From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Chong Yidong'" <cyd@gnu.org>, "'Glenn Morris'" <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 10153@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10153: 24.0.91; behavior of TAB in text modes is different
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:39:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2AB87B84E3C84938A49039098CACAD95@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ty5n0xgo.fsf@gnu.org>
> >> It appears that when the region is active, TAB in text
> >> mode now tries to indent to the previous line, i.e. it
> >> behaves like TAB in programming modes. Is this is a new
> >> intended feature?
>
> The new behavior seems to make more sense, so I guess I'll
> add a NEWS item and fix the indent-region doc.
Personally, I don't use text mode that much, and I don't care, for my personal
use.
But my guess is that there will be many Emacs users who will be confused by
this, expecting TAB to indent (if not to simply insert a TAB char). Not because
that's what TAB did in the past in Emacs, but because that's more or less the
behavior many newbies are used to, from other text editors.
My crystal ball whispers to me that there will be lots more questions posed by
newbies, to which the answer will be "Deactivate the region or use `C-q TAB'."
I would suggest keeping TAB in text mode simple, not DWIM.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-29 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-28 8:13 bug#10153: 24.0.91; behavior of TAB in text modes is different Chong Yidong
2011-11-28 20:09 ` Glenn Morris
2011-11-29 15:17 ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-29 15:39 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-11-29 20:15 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-11-29 21:56 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-29 21:59 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-11-29 22:18 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-29 22:22 ` Lennart Borgman
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