Re: Changed list indentation behavior: how to revert?

[Tim Cross]

Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> writes:

> Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> writes:
>> So, it seems that changing Org to honor electric-indent-mode is now
>> making some users aware of org-adapt-indentation and that its default
>> value is not what they want.
>
> I’ve seen before that increasing the depth of a headline with M-→
> indents all its content. That was mildly annoying, but nothing to worry
> about.
>
> It’s the change to the behavior of RET that disturbs my writing flow.
> Now I always have to hit RET twice, or hit RET C-a to start typing.
>
> It’s not just about the default, it is about long-standing muscle memory
> suddenly being wrong. This breaks my workflow on an update and requires
> me to start digging to find out how to get my system back into a good
> state.
>
> That’s something which makes me nervous, because I often don’t have the
> time or energy to investigate when something breaks, so when that
> workflow is broken, I’m bound to operate on a broken workflow for
> anything from days to months, because I cannot estimate how much time
> will be required to fix it (and at work I should not just take 3 hours
> off to search for some configuration value).
>

Hi Arne,

I can completely understand your position. However, I wanted to point
out that this change was documented in the org NEWS file, where all
version changes are documented. When upgrading to a new version of org,
everyone should look there, ideally before the upgrade or soon
afterwards and definitely when you notice some changed behaviour. It
will save hours of trouble shooting and often tells you how to restore
previous behaviour. A very under appreciated piece of valuable
documentation.

Tim


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Tim Cross