Re: Stop fiddling with my preferences

[Roland Lutz]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> See the NEWS excerpt below (although having such complaints from people
> who clearly don't read NEWS is hardly an incentive to continue with
> these efforts).

These instructions are helpful (I didn't know about the NEWS file at that
point) but they are missing `delete-active-region'.  Sure, it's documented
a few paragraphs above, but it doesn't say that it's enabled by default.

For electric-indent-mode, it says:

> *** `electric-indent-mode' is now enabled by default.
> Typing RET reindents the current line and indents the new line.
> `C-j' inserts a newline but does not indent.  In some programming modes,
> additional characters are electric (eg `{').
>
> *** New buffer-local `electric-indent-local-mode'.

After a bit of confusion with the argument of electric-indent-mode (nil 
enabling the mode), I disabled it globally.  However, this disabled all 
other electric characters, too.  I couldn't find documented how to revert 
to the previous behavior where `{' is electric but RET isn't.

> From the menu bar, click Options->Customize Emacs->New Options, and
> you will be able to see all the options that were added or changed
> since some Emacs version.

This doesn't help me here.