Re: Disabling automatic reindentation of the current line after a newline

[Stefan Monnier]

Anders Munch [2022-10-25 13:39:06] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> How do you do that when electric-indent-inhibit automatically becomes 
>>> buffer-local when set?
>>
>> Same as what you do for all the vars that share this characteristic, like
>> `indent-tabs-mode`.  I.e. either set the var from a mode hook or use
>> `setq-default`.
> setq-default is the missing piece that I did not know. Thank you.

To some extent, I think `setq` should basically never be used other than on
lexical variables: for non-lexical variables, we should either use
`setq-default` or `setq-local` but never this `setq` which does sometime
one thing and sometimes the other.


        Stefan