Re: electric-indent-mode: abolition of `newline' function is not the Right Thing.

[Stefan Monnier]

> With respect, that is not the topic of this thread.  That topic is that
> with electric-indent-mode enabled, there is now no command, also no
> elisp function which has the traditional functionality of `newline'.

Quick, without looking at the source code of newline: what does
`newline' do that (insert "\n") or C-q C-j doesn't do?

> That is a significant loss to Emacs.

I don't know what that is supposed to mean.


        Stefan