Hi Daniel,

Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:

> G'day.  I am a fan of `newline-and-indent', and turn it on for most of
> the modes I routinely use, since it is almost always what I want done.
>
> org-mode rebinds the "return" key to `org-return', which acts
> intelligently in the face of tables -- and calls `newline' hard-coded in
> other cases.
>
> I would like to preserve that intelligence, but also to use
> `newline-and-indent', so generated this patch to implement my desired
> behaviour.

I think having a new option is not the best solution.  I would prefer to
preserve the distinction between the two commands (RET and C-j).

The patch below does this: define org-return-indent and bind it to C-j.
Whether you want to bind it to RET is up to you.