From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Feeling lost without tabs Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 04:29:18 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <8738dsolj5.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406082624 31157 80.91.229.3 (23 Jul 2014 02:30:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 02:30:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 23 04:30:18 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X9mJt-0001t9-NN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 04:30:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42727 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9mJs-0001Ka-TD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 22:30:16 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:/cJLq2ZyP6YggLVUQvzyKqfMFRU= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206646 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98920 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe writes: > Like I said, Emacs sometimes provides several similar > functions as a way to provide users with options. > Often doing that is simpler than using variables. > The function "reindent-then-newline-and-indent" > indents the current line, inserts an newline then > indents the next line. Nobody is going to run that > function using M-x, it's there so people can map it > to a key, normally replacing a default function (such > as to C-j or RET). That's why buffer-menu and > buffer-menu-other-window are present too. You mean something like this: (defun do-something-big-or-small (big) ... Configuration-as-a-function: (defun do-something-big () (interactive) (do-something-big-or-small t) ) (defun do-something-small () (interactive) (do-something-big-or-small nil) ) That's OK, of course... (?) -- underground experts united