From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: simple editor required Date: 17 Jun 2003 12:14:23 -0400 Organization: Yale University Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5lr85sbs0w.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <8465nduadj.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <5lfzmgbrio.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <84el1zcze6.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <841xxzto54.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <5lu1aqcev2.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <84n0git5vn.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055869757 17159 80.91.224.249 (17 Jun 2003 17:09:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:09:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 17 19:09:08 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19SJxD-0004Rq-00 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 19:09:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19SJuA-00037q-Ji for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:05:58 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!news.wss.yale.edu!rum.cs.yale.edu!rum.cs.yale.edu Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu Original-X-Trace: news.wss.yale.edu 1055866466 18505 128.36.229.169 (17 Jun 2003 16:14:26 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@news.wss.yale.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:14:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu X-Original-Trace: 17 Jun 2003 12:14:23 -0400, rum.cs.yale.edu Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114520 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:11011 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11011 > In text mode, if my file looks like: > aaaa > bbbb > cccc > Hitting enter at beginning of aaaa line creates a newline plus an indent of > 8 spaces. I don't see this with any combination of Emacs-20.7, Emacs-21.3, text-mode, indented-text-mode, paragraph-indent-text-mode, newline, newline-and-indent. It's probably a bad interaction with your config. > (my tab is only 4 spaces), This is ambiguous since it doesn't say whether it's the displayed size of a TAB character, or the number of spaces-equivalent inserted when you hit M-i or maybe TAB (in which case it also depends on what TAB is bound to, which depends on the major mode via the variable indent-line-function). > but I didn't actually expect any indentation at all here. Rightly so. > And one more. If I cursor down in xemacs, xemacs doesn't > automatically start expanding the size of my file when I reach > the end, but emacs does. How do I stop that? C-h k will give you the documentation of the function that moves the cursor down. It explains how to change this part of the behavior. Stefan