From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why flip RET and C-j with electric-indent-mode?
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 09:50:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tx1ila1w.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141128153825244895059@bob.proulx.com>
> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 15:56:30 -0700
> From: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
>
> So why did emacs flip RET and C-j with electric-indent-mode?
Because users nowadays expect that.
> Here is the news entry.
>
> * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.4
>
> ** Indentation
>
> *** `electric-indent-mode' is now enabled by default.
> Typing RET reindents the current line and indents the new line.
> `C-j' inserts a newline but does not indent. In some programming modes,
> additional characters are electric (eg `{').
>
> *** New buffer-local `electric-indent-local-mode'.
>
> The change is to set electric-indent-mode all of the time. Even in
> fundamental-mode? That is a terrible thing to do to users. Rug.
> Standing on rug? Yank rug!
"C-h f newline RET" will have a suggestion that you will like, I
think.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-29 7:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-28 22:56 Why flip RET and C-j with electric-indent-mode? Bob Proulx
2014-11-28 23:52 ` Drew Adams
2014-11-29 7:50 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-11-29 23:20 ` Bob Proulx
2014-11-30 1:49 ` Drew Adams
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2016-04-29 17:57 ` jfiocca0
2016-06-03 23:41 ` Bob Proulx
2016-06-06 17:23 ` Jim Fiocca
2016-06-06 22:08 ` Bob Proulx
2014-11-29 12:31 ` Rasmus
2014-11-30 9:59 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] <mailman.14910.1417215406.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-29 9:34 ` jfbu
2014-11-30 4:48 ` Stefan Monnier
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2014-12-11 16:56 Stephen
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