Re: newline-and-indent vs. electric-indent-mode

[Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>]

On 25.01.2021 12:45, Madhu wrote:
> * Dmitry Gutov <801ef866-4212-5b74-350e-9942953174fe@yandex.ru> :
> Wrote on Mon, 25 Jan 2021 04:29:55 +0200:
> 
>> On 25.01.2021 03:56, Madhu wrote:
>>> I used to be benefit from emacs indentation by binding RET to
>>> newline-and-indent and remain in control of indentation.
>>
>> How was it different?
>> newline-and-indent can lead to "spurious whitespace" just the same.
> 
> This is true now, and I'm not able to say with certainty what the
> difference was 10 years ago (if it indeed was different)

It wasn't different before electric-indent-mode was introduced.

> IIRC the way to deal with it was that if the next event after a
> newline-and-indent is *not* a self-insert-command, then empty whitespace
> on that line should have be cleaned up.

I've always had to use a third-party mode to clean up that whitespace, 
such as https://github.com/purcell/whitespace-cleanup-mode (most recently).

But what you're suggesting should be easy enough to implement in your 
personal config too, creating a wrapper for newline-and-indent.