Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:33:11 +0800 >> From: Xue Fuqiao >> Cc: stephen.berman@gmx.net, 13810@debbugs.gnu.org >> >> On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:50:14 +0200 >> Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> >> > The glossary is not the place where to look for all the possible >> > meanings of "margin". >> >> Why? Because it has to be brief? > > Because it doesn't pretend to cover everything. > > I do agree that it would be good in this particular case to add the > other meaning of "margin" to the glossary, though. I'm not sure it's worth mentioning in this context to be honest. One possibility would be to instead rename `left-margin' to something like `indent-column' or `electric-indent-column' so we can get rid of this terminological confusion altogether. In my testing I'm also confused as to what the `left-margin' variable is supposed to do. I tried: 1. emacs -Q 2. M-x fundamental-mode 3. M-x set-variable RET left-margin RET 3 RET Now `newline' (RET) does not indent to column 3. However, `electric-newline-and-maybe-indent' (C-j) does indent to that column. This seems to contradict the doc string of `left-margin', which says "Linefeed indents to this column in Fundamental mode." I also found some possibility for improving the doc string of `newline', and propose the attached patch. WDYT? Best regards, Stefan Kangas