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bug#22564: Fundamental mode isn't fundamental enough.
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Alan Mackenzie |
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bug#22564: Fundamental mode isn't fundamental enough. |
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Fri, 5 Feb 2016 21:53:01 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) |
Hello, Glenn.
On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 03:23:57PM -0500, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Still fighting the electric-indent fight I see.
:-)
> Purely as a data point, from the Emacs manual:
> The least specialized major mode is called "Fundamental mode". This
> mode has no mode-specific redefinitions or variable settings, so that
> each Emacs command behaves in its most general manner, and each user
> option variable is in its default state.
> It would therefore be against the spirit of fundamental mode to
> introduce any mode-specific behaviour for it.
I'd agree with that last paragraph.
However, fundamental mode has had mode-specific indentation behaviour
thrust upon it. You'd probably argue legalistically that once some
indentation behaviour has been made a default, it's no longer
mode-specific. I'd disagree with you.
Following a particular indentation strategy is _not_ "behaving in the
most general manner", which is what I would like to expect from
fundamental mode. As Eli intimated, we could really do with an
unspecialised, vanilla major mode, though I've no firm idea what we could
call it: plain-mode, or wydiwyg-mode, or something like that.
The logical upshot would be to make the default indentation behaviour no
indentation.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
bug#22564: Fundamental mode isn't fundamental enough., Drew Adams, 2016/02/05
bug#22564: Fundamental mode isn't fundamental enough., Glenn Morris, 2016/02/05
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bug#22564: Fundamental mode isn't fundamental enough., Achim Gratz, 2016/02/06
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