Re: Idea: unify *newline(-and-indent)

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Daniel Colascione wrote:
> Then, take all the functions above and convert them to functions that
> can be plugged into interactive-newline-function. The situation we end
> up with something like indent-for-tab-command and indent-line-function.
> 
> Is it worth writing the patch?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan

I think this would be very good.

Users that normally use several different major could benefit. This is
of course often the case in web development.

> (Also – any objections to making cc-mode and lisp-mode use
> indent-for-tab-command? The lisp tab command
> has an indent-whole-sexp feature, but that be handled by passing the
> prefix argument to indent-line-function. The cc-mode indent function has
> some tab-or-indent DWIM feature, but isn't it better to put that in
> indent-for-tab-command by extending tab-always-indent?)

In my opinion, yes.