Re: newline-and-indent vs. electric-indent-mode

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 23.01.2021 01:16, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > > That would disable the effects of electric-indent-functions, and in
> > > > particular, of ruby--electric-indent-p.
> > > I don't see why.  AFAIK it should only inhibit the "reindent original
> > > line when inserting \n".  It should affect indentation of the line after
> > > the inserted \n nor should it affect indentation when inserting
> > > other chars.
> > It also affect "reindent original line when inserting something other than
> > \n", which is what ruby--electric-indent-p is all about (e.g. I type 'd'
> > finishing the token 'end', and the line is reindented).
>
> Hmm... indeed I now see that the code also inhibits reindentation in
> that case.  Weird!
> Could you open a bug report for this?

I'm not sure how it is a bug. It's "reindentation" in both cases, right?

And electric-indent-inhibit's docstring refers to reindentation.

> > It's just that in my mental model \n doesn't belong to the current line,
> > only to the next one. So it shouldn't reindent the original line.
>
> It's often useful for me, as in typing
>
>      foo RET else RET blabla
>
> where the else benefits from being reindented upon the second RET.

I see. Well, ruby--electric-indent-p covers this scenario already.

Perhaps your approach is simpler, but always reindenting the original 
line gets annoying if the indentation function sometimes produces 
suboptimal results. Or, you know, just results that disagree with the 
style guide used in a project. Then I have to go back and change the 
indentation manually again, or undo the change and go with C-o C-n TAB.