bug#28124: 24.5; fundamental-mode has electric-indent-mode on by default

[Noam Postavsky]

# intended behaviour
tags 28124 notabug wontfix
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Matthias Meixner <Matthias.Meixner@VERIFONE.com>
>> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 07:56:39 +0000
>> 
>> Fundamental-mode has electric-indent-mode on by default. As a result when 
>> pressing return leading
>> whitespace is removed which is highly unexpected in fundamental-mode.
>
> Yes, and this is a feature.
>
>> Globally disabling electric-indent-mode is not an option, since that would 
>> also disable it for other
>> modes, where it should be available (e.g. C/C++ mode).
>
> You can disable the mode locally in the current buffer:
>
>   M-x electric-indent-local-mode RET
>
> (This is mentioned in the doc string of electric-indent-mode.)

Therefore closing as wontfix.