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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Shyam Nath <shyam@shyam.id.au>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Is this a bug, the esoteric Elisp way?
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 15:10:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV--5jvQWQXkbvhWHHvT4WRbT97m8Xz=LjomPXsTONHm0NA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16d1c7b33db.e1bef1ec686755.5085069733670395488@shyam.id.au>

On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 at 14:42, Shyam Nath <shyam@shyam.id.au> wrote:

> So `(setq electric-indent-mode nil)` disables it, and I thought it also disables all tabbing; this seems disabled in Elisp, but not plain text files, and http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_tabs_space_indentation_setup.html patches it. The documentation for electric-indent-mode says "If called from Lisp, enable the mode if ARG is omitted or nil.", but nil disables it; /implementation|typographical/ bug.

The documentation you refer to is about the function, i.e.,
`(electric-indent-mode)` or `(electric-indent-mode nil)` will enable
the mode. Use `(electric-indent-mode -1)` to disable it.

Using setq on the variable won't do the right thing, as mentioned in
its documentation:

Setting this variable directly does not take effect;
either customize it (see the info node ‘Easy Customization’)
or call the function ‘electric-indent-mode’.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-10 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-10 17:36 Is this a bug, the esoteric Elisp way? Shyam Nath
2019-09-10 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-10 18:22 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-09-10 18:44   ` Shyam Nath
2019-09-10 18:41 ` Shyam Nath
2019-09-10 19:10   ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2019-09-10 19:43     ` Shyam Nath
2019-09-10 19:48       ` Noam Postavsky
2019-09-11  5:18         ` shyam

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