So essentially, this change has been made to make org-mode consistent
with the rest of emacs which enabled electric-indent by default in Emacs
24. this is a good thing. Org should be consistent with other modes. Any
differences are likely to be the source of confusion and bug reports.
Hi Tim,
Consistency is good but when people have been using org-mode for 10+ years get a fundamental behavior change (like when you hit enter) through an update it can be confusing. Perhaps old behavior should be preserved by default for current org users but the new behavior adopted for new installs.
Maybe a heuristic something like this would work:
1) when org-mode starts, it could check to see if there are any existing customizations at all -- if there are, the user has used org before
2) if org-adapt-indentation is not currently customized, customize it to nil
Or something like that.
This should preserve the old behavior for old org users but use the new behavior for new users (except for old users with fresh emacs installs but maybe this is good enough).
-- Bill