Re: Is this a bug, the esoteric Elisp way?

[Shyam Nath]

🖖 Hello Noam,



Thanks, I've changed it in my init.el file, but the way I was doing it before 
also worked; `C-h f electric-indent-mode` in 26.1 doesn't include any of that 
for me.



LIVE LONG AND PROSPER \V/,
AGENT S.
🕴
Migrating Infestive Bugs !!



---- On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 05:10:52 +1000 Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> 
wrote ----


On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 at 14:42, Shyam Nath <mailto:shyam@shyam.id.au> wrote: 
 
> So `(setq electric-indent-mode nil)` disables it, and I thought it also 
> disables all tabbing; this seems disabled in Elisp, but not plain text files, 
> and http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_tabs_space_indentation_setup.html 
> patches it. The documentation for electric-indent-mode says "If called from 
> Lisp, enable the mode if ARG is omitted or nil.", but nil disables it; 
> /implementation|typographical/ bug. 
 
The documentation you refer to is about the function, i.e., 
`(electric-indent-mode)` or `(electric-indent-mode nil)` will enable 
the mode. Use `(electric-indent-mode -1)` to disable it. 
 
Using setq on the variable won't do the right thing, as mentioned in 
its documentation: 
 
Setting this variable directly does not take effect; 
either customize it (see the info node ‘Easy Customization’) 
or call the function ‘electric-indent-mode’.