Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116461: Connect electric-indent-mode up with CC Mode. Bug #15478.

[Dmitry Gutov]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> > This might be mostly true, but not always.  E.g., what if you delete a
>> > character whose electricity caused the line to be indented in some
>> > special way, when that character was inserted earlier?  After deleting
>> > that character, the line might no longer be indented correctly.
>> 
>> This is covered by "through me typing TAB manually".
>
> It's a nuisance for me to have to type TAB every time.

"every time" sounds much more annoying than "every time I perform some
improbable operation". ;)

> I switched to Emacs because it didn't require that to keep the source
> nicely formatted, while other IDEs did.

I mostly like the fact that `indent-for-tab-command' is idempotent in
most modes.