bug#35254: 27.0.50; cc-mode/electric-pair-mode/electric-layout-mode: bad trailing whitespace behavior in cc-mode

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 10:06:42 -0400, Noam Postavsky wrote:
>> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>>
>> Of course c-mode could rebind it in its mode map (I considered making
>> `electric-newline-and-maybe-indent' consult `electric-indent-functions'
>> as well but that won't work because that hook is supposed to run after
>> the character is inserted).
>
> I think we've got enough foggy complexity in the area as it is.  I
> suppose CC Mode could bind <CR> to `newline-and-indent', but there's now
> no longer a clean function which does what `newline' used to do, to bind
> onto C-j.

Sorry if my question is completely naive or irrelevant (I haven't read
the discussion very carefully), but how does the command
c-context-line-break, which is described under "Making the <RET> key
indent the new line" in (info "(ccmode) Getting Started") relate to this
issue, if at all?

Thanks,

-- 
Basil