bug#10153: 24.0.91; behavior of TAB in text modes is different

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 16:39, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> >> It appears that when the region is active, TAB in text
>> >> mode now tries to indent to the previous line, i.e. it
>> >> behaves like TAB in programming modes.  Is this is a new
>> >> intended feature?
>>
>> The new behavior seems to make more sense, so I guess I'll
>> add a NEWS item and fix the indent-region doc.
>
> Personally, I don't use text mode that much, and I don't care, for my personal
> use.
>
> 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) or programs like LibreOffice? In the latter TAB moves to next
tab stop. Most users probably never use a simple text editor today.

So I suggest TAB stop should indent.