Kyle Meyer <k...@kyleam.com> writes:
> Kévin Le Gouguec writes: > >> Detlef Steuer <ste...@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 -- Tim Cross