Most of them are not activated by default.

2015-02-20 9:31 GMT+01:00 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:

> > From: Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:19:22 +0100
> >
> > I was wondering why is `sh-electric-here-document-mode` activated by
> default
> > for new documents in `sh-mode`? In my opinion, it is confusing to
> beginners,
> > and working around it is difficult.
> >
> > I was under the impression that in most cases, this kind of commands,
> inserting
> > text beyond what the user types, without requiring anything besides text
> input,
> > are disabled by default. AUCTeX's electric backslash, for example,
> require a
> > specific option to be set, even though in most cases it can be
> transparent
> > input-wise (just visually confusing). Another example is dabbrev, which
> needs
> > to be activated by the user.
> >
> > And why is it so hard to disable it once you find out where the annoying
> > behavior comes from? (Just see how many articles deal with this specific
> issue;
> > and having changed the name of the mode in 24.3 doesn't help)
>
> What you say is generally applicable to any electric behavior in any
> Emacs mode, not just to sh-electric-here-document-mode, right?  Or is
> that mode somehow special (and if so, how)?
>