bug#10153: 24.0.91; behavior of TAB in text modes is different

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 22:56, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> > But my guess is that there will be many Emacs users who
>> > will be confused by this, expecting TAB to indent
>> > (if not to simply insert a TAB char).  Not because
>> > that's what TAB did in the past in Emacs, but because
>> > that's more or less the behavior many newbies are used to,
>> > from other text editors.
>>
>> Are not most users now used to web browsers (where TAB move to next
>> field)
>
> Irrelevant here - we're talking about editing.

You edit text fields in web pages so it is not totally irrelevant. TAB
does not insert a tab character there.

>> or programs like LibreOffice? In the latter TAB moves to next
>> tab stop.
>
> Yes, that is what they will expect.  IIUC, that is different from the cited 
> new
> indentation when the region is active.

I thought the new behavior indented to the line above. If that is not
the case I am misunderstanding. Sorry.