Swapping of C-j and RET bindings is dependent on electric-indent-mode; it shouldn't be.

Swapping of C-j and RET bindings is dependent on electric-indent-mode; it shouldn't be.

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Emacs.

In the recent past, a consensus was reached that for programming modes,
C-j should be bound to `newline' and RET to `newline-and-indent'.

The current implementation of "this" works by changing traditional
bindings in `global-map' when electric-indent-mode is enabled, and
changing them back again when e-i-m is disabled.  Apologies if I've
misunderstood the source code.  This code is in electric-indent-mode
itself, in electric.el.

Thus the bindings of C-j and RET appear to swap each time e-i-m is
{en,dis}abled.  This is surely not the Right Thing.

A better way would be to put the new bindings for C-j and RET into
prog-mode-map and any necessary individual modes which, e.g., don't
derive from prog-mode.

These binding changes are also made _globally_ when
electric-indent-local-mode is enabled for a buffer.  They are not
restored again when that mode is disabled for the buffer.  This is
confusing and suboptimal.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).