tab at beginning of line does not indent any more

tab at beginning of line does not indent any more

[Mandar Mitra]

I have org 20210929 installed. 

With emacs -Q and (package-initialize) evaluted in the *scratch* buffer, I see the following change in behaviour:

* ABCD
<type tab here at beginning of line; nothing happens>



I'm fairly sure that, before the last upgrade, I used to get 

* ABCD
  <typing tab at beginning of line indents the line and brings it to under A>


Have other users observed this? Are you bothered by it? Is this a bug or a feature? Note I'm running with emacs -Q for the above, but I get the same behaviour with org-cycle-emulate-tab set to t or white. The information I found on the net seems to pertain to much older versions. 

Thanks,
Mandar.

Re: tab at beginning of line does not indent any more

[Jose A. Ortega Ruiz]

On Mon, Dec 27 2021, Mandar Mitra wrote:

> I have org 20210929 installed. 
>
> With emacs -Q and (package-initialize) evaluted in the *scratch*
> buffer, I see the following change in behaviour:
>
> * ABCD
> <type tab here at beginning of line; nothing happens>
>
>
>
> I'm fairly sure that, before the last upgrade, I used to get 
>
> * ABCD
>   <typing tab at beginning of line indents the line and brings it to under A>
>
>
> Have other users observed this? Are you bothered by it? Is this a bug
> or a feature? Note I'm running with emacs -Q for the above, but I get
> the same behaviour with org-cycle-emulate-tab set to t or white. The
> information I found on the net seems to pertain to much older
> versions.

i was surprised by this (new?) behaviour too.  in my case, i "fixed" it
with

      (setq org-adapt-indentation t)

if memory serves, i found about this variable in the info manual.

hope this helps,
jao
-- 
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Re: tab at beginning of line does not indent any more

[Mandar Mitra]

On Mon, Dec 27 2021, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 27 2021, Mandar Mitra wrote:
> i was surprised by this (new?) behaviour too.  in my case, i "fixed" it
> with
> 
>       (setq org-adapt-indentation t)
> 
> if memory serves, i found about this variable in the info manual.
> 
> hope this helps,

Yes, this fixed the problem for me too, thanks very much!

In hindsight, seems to me that this may have been intended for people who write LaTeX (or other documents) using org-mode.