Re: IWBNI electric indentation could be disabled, without affecting <TAB>

[Stefan <mo...@ir...>]

>> BTW, instead of rebinding ;, {, (, how about abusing auto-fill-chars
>> and setting auto-fill-function to c-auto-newline/fill/indent?

> Interesting idea, but is there any real advantage with that?

Maybe.  I haven't thought too deeply about it.
I like the fact that you don't need to rebind the keys, so my own global
rebinding of { will not be overriden in cc-mode, but whether it's good or
not in general, I don't know.

I was just thinking that it seemed like a funny idea, which might
deserve generalization (or dismissal).

> You mean that CC Mode would unilaterally extend the semantics of the
> auto-fill-chars variable? Wouldn't that be a bit unsafe?

It's not unsafe, since it will simply use some available data that's
usually ignored.  It's just using the existing functionality a bit more
extensively than what's been done until now.


        Stefan