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

["Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> > 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.

> 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.

> Most users probably never use a simple text editor today.
> So I suggest TAB stop should indent.

I think the question is just what "indent" should mean in text mode, and whether
that meaning should change when the region is active.

(But again, personally, I don't much care.)