From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Simple emacs setup for general prose?
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:51:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739mxnxoi.fsf@fh-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: aa9f81b4-fb6a-48c7-b5ee-9ba18c071372@q12g2000prb.googlegroups.com
bclark76 <bclark76@gmail.com> writes:
> I'd like to edit prose using emacs. Is there a mode where I can
> smoothly type prose?
>
> I want paragraphs to look like this:
>
> *TAB*Here is the start of a paragraph that I want emacs to autofill.
> notice how it begins with a tab character on the first line, and the
> second and subsequent lines do not start with the tab character.
> this ALMOST seems possible using M-x text then M-x fill, but
> unfortunately my paragraphs come out as below.
>
Try `paragraph-indent-text-mode', `auto-fill-mode' and
M-: (setq indent-tabs-mode t) RET
-ap
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-08 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-08 18:44 Simple emacs setup for general prose? bclark76
2011-03-08 20:51 ` Andreas Politz [this message]
2011-03-08 21:42 ` Tim X
2011-03-15 17:51 ` Daniel Goldin
2011-03-17 23:47 ` suvayu ali
2011-03-17 18:31 ` rusi
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