Re: Default behaviour of RET.

[Stefan Monnier]

> The traditional docstring says that it moves to the left margin and
> handles auto-filling.  Eli's suggestion of `(insert "\n")' doesn't do
> that, and it's not what `newline' does when corrupted by
> `electric-shock-mode'.  But I think it's useful behavior, and I think
> programs should be able to rely on it (as opposed to users who can
> modify the behavior of `One-Flew-Over-the-Cuckoos-Nest-mode' by
> removing ?\n, or not invoke the mode in the first place).

I can't remember ever seeing a piece of code which wants "the Emacs-23
newline behavior".  Usually it either wants to (insert "\n") or it wants
to simulate hitting RET.

This discussion would benefit from actual examples of code that
fall into neither "do whatever RET does" nor "insert \n".


        Stefan