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bug#4743: fundamental mode not sufficiently fundamental yet
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#4743: fundamental mode not sufficiently fundamental yet |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:16:07 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> Looks like maybe you don't want Emacs.
> Thats surely not the case. I am using Emacs since the early 90s.
I'm glad to hear it.
>> It turns out that Emacs's fundamental mode used to behave in this way at
>> some point in the past. But most like those "micro emacsen" do it this
>> way simply because they want to keep things simple.
> And you disagree with Kiss?
KISS results in different final products depending on the context.
E.g. in the case of Emacs, changing indent-line-function's default from
`indent-to-left-margin' to `indent-relative' made the code simpler
(after all, the complexity associated with indent-relative can't be
avoided, so the driving decision was "which choice is the most common"
so as to reduce the amount of work to be done in each major mode).
> Setting the (undocumented?) indent-fill-function did not work.
It's because it was a typo. My previous email had the right name:
indent-line-function.
Stefan