Re: electric-indent-mode: abolition of `newline' function is not the Right Thing.

[Stefan Monnier]

> :-)  Of course there are workarounds, but that's not the point.  There
> are approximately 198 calls to `newline' in the Emacs Lisp sources, and
> an unknown further number in other Lisp files and users' .emacsen.  Some
> of these calls are going to get broken by the effective change to
> `newline'.

Right.  But the problem is that this is not specific to
electric-indent-mode: newline calls self-insert-command, which runs
expand-abbrev and (since Emacs24) post-self-insert-hook.  Any caller
which only wants a \n and no extra doo-dads should not call `newline'.

electric-indent-mode just makes this problem more apparent.


        Stefan