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bug#22564: Fundamental mode isn't fundamental enough.
From: |
Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
bug#22564: Fundamental mode isn't fundamental enough. |
Date: |
Fri, 5 Feb 2016 15:13:27 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) |
Hello, Eli.
On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 04:46:09PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 12:55:59 +0000
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> >
> > I've just tried to paste some text into a fundamental mode buffer, using
> > GNU/Linux's GPM mouse utility. It gets fouled up by some facility that
> > decides I want some automatic indentation, despite being in fundamental
> > mode. As far as I understand, GPM does pasting by effectively typing a
> > character at a time.
> You want to turn off electric-indent-mode, I think.
Sort of. But this is beyond the capabilities of a newby (discovering
that, I mean).
> > This is surely a bug.
> No, it's a deliberate feature, AFAIU.
You mean, there should no longer be a vanilla fundamental mode? I would
argue that no "helpful" electric modes should be enabled in FM. At the
moment, it appears, we are lacking a What-You-Do-Is-What-You-Get mode.
I think electric-*-modes should be disabled in FM unless explicitly
enabled by the user in an FM buffer. We've become far too "clever" with
all these facilities.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
bug#22564: Fundamental mode isn't fundamental enough., Drew Adams, 2016/02/05
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