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bug#22564: Fundamental mode isn't fundamental enough.
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Richard Stallman |
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bug#22564: Fundamental mode isn't fundamental enough. |
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Fri, 06 May 2022 19:20:54 -0400 |
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> As a simple example, try this in fundamental mode, on an empty line:
> C-u 10 SPC C-u 10 x RET
As far as I could see, it did not change anything.
So I tried again in emacs -Q, and I saw it indented the
following line.
> Nevertheless, if we describe better what the newline and similar
> characters do in electric-indent-mode, that would cover Fundamental as
> well,
If the description of thoe characters' default behavior is concrete enough,
I think it would do the job.
> I don't know. But I think it is better to say that this mode
> automatically indents the current line according to the context (the
> surrounding lines) and the rules of the major mode. After all, the
> mode's name is "Electric Indent mode", not "Electric Reindent mode".
Maybe. But I do think the term "reindent" needs to be explined
somewhere in the Emacs manual.
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- bug#22564: Fundamental mode isn't fundamental enough., Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/05
- bug#22564: Fundamental mode isn't fundamental enough., Andreas Röhler, 2022/05/05
- bug#22564: Fundamental mode isn't fundamental enough., Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/05
- bug#22564: Fundamental mode isn't fundamental enough., Andreas Röhler, 2022/05/05
- bug#22564: Fundamental mode isn't fundamental enough.,
Richard Stallman <=
- bug#22564: Fundamental mode isn't fundamental enough., Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/07
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