Re: Changed list indentation behavior: how to revert?

[Tim Cross]

Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> writes:

> Kévin Le Gouguec writes:
>
>> Detlef Steuer <steuer@hsu-hh.de> writes:
>> Note that indenting section bodies by default predates Org 9.4: in Org
>> 9.3, hitting TAB on the first line of text after a heading indents it to
>> column LEVEL+1.
>
> Yes, org-adapt-indentation has been around (with a default of t) since
> 4be4c5623 (version 4.12a, 2008-01-31).
>
>> IMHO, the default value of org-adapt-indentation might be the issue here
>> (made more visible by the change in 9.4): I agree that hard-indenting
>> prose should not be the default behaviour.  FWIW the .dir-locals.el file
>> at the root of Org's own repository sets this variable to nil; maybe
>> that suggests that it would be a better default?
>
> Perhaps.  I certainly prefer org-adapt-indentation at nil and would vote
> for that if we were introducing the option today, but this would be
> changing a longstanding default.
>
> So, it seems that changing Org to honor electric-indent-mode is now
> making some users aware of org-adapt-indentation and that its default
> value is not what they want.

Thanks for clarifying this Kyle.

So essentially, this change has been made to make org-mode consistent
with the rest of emacs which enabled electric-indent by default in Emacs
24. this is a good thing. Org should be consistent with other modes. Any
differences are likely to be the source of confusion and bug reports.

I am a little confused about the purpose of org-adapt-indentation
though. According to the org news file, to get back the old behaviour,
it says to explicity disable electric-indent mode using org-mode-hook.
There is no mention of org-adapt-indentation.

Is this just an artefact from before and in effect, we have two methods
to disable the indentation behaviour? Is there anything functionally
different between disabling electric-indent by calling
electric-indent-local-mode -1 or setting org-adapt-indent to nil or is
the result functionally equivalent?

Tim

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Tim Cross