Mike Kupfer writes: > Over the weekend I upgraded my Emacs from 27.1 (Org 9.3) to 27.2-rc2 > (Org 9.4). I noticed that Org mode behaves differently, even with > "emacs -Q". > > In 27.1, if I visit foo.org and type "* header RET", point is put in the > first column. In 27.2, point is put in column 3. > > AFAIK, I'm not using electric-indent-mode; at least it's not shown in > the minor mode list in the modeline.
electric-indent-mode has been enabled by default since Emacs 24. If you run `C-h v electric-indent-mode` under emacs -Q, you should see that its value is t. > org-adapt-indentation is t in both Emacs 27.1 and Emacs 27.2. Was there > a bug fix that went into Org 9.4 such that org-adapt-indentation is now > honored? Not that I'm aware of. However, Org was changed to respect the electric-indent-mode value: d3e6b5800 (Make RET and C-j obey `electric-indent-mode', 2020-05-05) https://orgmode.org/list/877dxpazbo.fsf...@gmail.com/T/#u > Could the change in behavior be documented in the ORG-NEWS > file in Emacs? Here's what ORG-NEWS says under the 9.4 release: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- *** =RET= and =C-j= now obey ~electric-indent-mode~ Since Emacs 24.4, ~electric-indent-mode~ is enabled by default. In most major modes, this causes =RET= to reindent the current line and indent the new line, and =C-j= to insert a newline without indenting. Org mode now obeys this minor mode: when ~electric-indent-mode~ is enabled, and point is neither in a table nor on a timestamp or a link: - =RET= (bound to ~org-return~) reindents the current line and indents the new line; - =C-j= (bound to the new command ~org-return-and-maybe-indent~) merely inserts a newline. To get the previous behaviour back, disable ~electric-indent-mode~ explicitly: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (add-hook 'org-mode-hook (lambda () (electric-indent-local-mode -1))) #+end_src Alternatively, if you wish to keep =RET= as the "smart-return" key, but dislike Org's default indentation of sections, you may prefer to customize ~org-adapt-indentation~ to either =nil= or ='headline-data=. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
