From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10153: 24.0.91; behavior of TAB in text modes is different Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:56:41 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87d3ccr7f5.fsf@gnu.org> <87ty5n0xgo.fsf@gnu.org> <2AB87B84E3C84938A49039098CACAD95@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322603835 6936 80.91.229.12 (29 Nov 2011 21:57:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:57:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Chong Yidong' , 10153@debbugs.gnu.org To: "'Lennart Borgman'" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 29 22:57:10 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RVVfo-0000s0-O5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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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.)