From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>, 10153@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10153: 24.0.91; behavior of TAB in text modes is different
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:59:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANbX364kyST7FCVf5NBSgDceXGy2p1hHmMZKBoL=oPyH6Z_V6Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CF1F426F399C4D629B90E1E9D31D01F8@us.oracle.com>
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 22:56, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> > But my guess is that there will be many Emacs users who
>> > will be confused by this, expecting TAB to indent
>> > (if not to simply insert a TAB char). Not because
>> > that's what TAB did in the past in Emacs, but because
>> > that's more or less the behavior many newbies are used to,
>> > from other text editors.
>>
>> Are not most users now used to web browsers (where TAB move to next
>> field)
>
> Irrelevant here - we're talking about editing.
You edit text fields in web pages so it is not totally irrelevant. TAB
does not insert a tab character there.
>> or programs like LibreOffice? In the latter TAB moves to next
>> tab stop.
>
> Yes, that is what they will expect. IIUC, that is different from the cited new
> indentation when the region is active.
I thought the new behavior indented to the line above. If that is not
the case I am misunderstanding. Sorry.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-29 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-28 8:13 bug#10153: 24.0.91; behavior of TAB in text modes is different Chong Yidong
2011-11-28 20:09 ` Glenn Morris
2011-11-29 15:17 ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-29 15:39 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-29 20:15 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-11-29 21:56 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-29 21:59 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2011-11-29 22:18 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-29 22:22 ` Lennart Borgman
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