Re: Questioning the new behavior of `open-line'.

[Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> Maybe I'm missing something, but I think this behavior doesn't happen when
>>> electric-indent-mode is off, which it was in previous versions of Emacs.
>>> Isn't that true?
>>
>> Correct. We have several things in play here:
>>
>>   1. When electric-indent-mode is off, everything is fine.
>>
>>   2. When electric-indent-mode is on, C-o behaves in an unexpected fashion.
>>
>>   3. We should fix C-o when electric-indent-mode is on, so its behavior is not
>>      affected by electric-indent-mode.
>>
>>   4. We should disable electric-indent-mode by default.
>>
>> Since I wasn't present for the discussion when electric-indent-mode was
>> enabled by default, I'd like to reopen that discussion with regard to 25.1.
>> Probably on a separate thread from this one.
>
> I'm reasonably fine with electric-indent-mode by default I think.  But
> _exactly_ when electric-indent-mode is on, the need for a dumb C-o is
> largest for me.

I share this sentiment.  I love most of the electricity and it should be
on by default IMHO.

But the change to C-o is for the worse.  It should be "dumb" also at
columns greater than zero.

Rasmus

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