Do not set indent-line-function in text-mode

For discussion, see thread starting at:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-03/msg01012.html
* lisp/textmodes/text-mode.el (text-mode): Do not reset
indent-line-function to its global default value of indent-relative.
* doc/lispref/modes.texi (Example Major Modes):
* etc/NEWS: Document change accordingly.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 7486d6bcfed..89e07a2f4df 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1371,6 +1371,15 @@ ending character were silently omitted.
 For example, '(rx (any "@z-a" (?9 . ?0)))' would match '@' only.
 Now, such rx expressions generate an error.
 
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+** 'text-mode' no longer sets the value of 'indent-line-function'.
+The global value of 'indent-line-function', which defaults to
+'indent-relative', will no longer be reset locally when turning on
+'text-mode'.
+
+To get back the old behavior, add a function to 'text-mode-hook' which
+performs (setq-local indent-line-function #'indent-relative).
+
 
 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 27.1