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Re: auto-indent in emacs
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: auto-indent in emacs |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:08:15 -0800 (PST) |
"Davis Herring" <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > Why?
> > > > TAB does `indent-region' just fine
> > >
> > > Only with Transient Mark Mode.
> >
> > i.e. by default.
>
> Well, either `indent-region' is important enough, even in the presence of
> TAB/TMM, to get a keybinding (currently C-M-\), in which case it's
C-M-\ was there before t-m-m was the default.
t-m-m by default just made the binding not as useful as it used to be by
default, but people might still be using it.
TAB is a simple solution, it works by default.
We cannot provide generic solutions for all non-default options.
> worthwhile to consider whether certain keyboards have difficulty
> generating that event, or it's not, in which case we can just get rid of
> the keybinding altogether now that TMM is the default and have one more
> available for user customization (for those users on whose keyboards it is
> a convenient chord). Saying "it's a bad keybinding but we really don't
> want it anyway" strikes me as nonsensical.
I have not said or implied anything of the sort.
- Re: auto-indent in emacs, (continued)