bug#20846: 24.4; Electric-indent-mode does not call indent-line-function after hitting RET inside a comment

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 28.05.2021 16:06, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Then that sentence is misleading and should be rephrased,

Maybe? I don't have a better wording to suggest off the top of my head.

> because my
> reading of it is that it clearly states that auto-indentation inside
> strings is generally impossible, and expects the implementations to
> behave like that.

Consider this from a design POV: if all indentation functions were 
supposed to return 'noindent when inside a string or comment, 
indent-for-tab-command could do that check itself and avoid calling 
indent-line-function entirely in that case.

And also that #'indent-relative (the default value of 
indent-line-function) does indent inside strings and comments.