From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alex <agrambot@gmail.com>
Cc: 24766@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24766: 26.0.50: [PATCH] Confusing behaviour for indent-relative-maybe
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 11:23:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837f8y5f5x.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twc2iynm.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Alex on Sun, 23 Oct 2016 14:43:57 -0600)
> From: Alex <agrambot@gmail.com>
> Cc: 24766@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 14:43:57 -0600
>
> What about changing `indent-relative-maybe' and adding an extra argument
> to `indent-relative'? Since `indent-relative-maybe' has had that
> docstring for a good 15 years, and the name fits the new behaviour more.
>
> Then in Emacs core we can replace the single instance of it with
> (indent-relative t). The corresponding diff:
I'd prefer a backward-compatible change, i.e. make the new argument be
the 2nd one, and keep the current behavior when the 1st arg is non-nil
and the 2nd is nil or omitted.
Also, please add the necessary text to the doc string to document the
new argument.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-24 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-22 19:01 bug#24766: 26.0.50: [PATCH] Confusing behaviour for indent-relative-maybe Alex
2016-10-22 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-22 19:40 ` Alex
2016-10-22 19:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-22 21:49 ` Alex
2016-10-23 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-23 20:43 ` Alex
2016-10-24 8:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-10-24 19:27 ` Alex
2016-10-24 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-08 1:53 ` Alex
2016-11-08 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-08 19:09 ` Alex
2016-11-08 20:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-18 9:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
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