From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Simple emacs setup for general prose? Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:51:09 +0100 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <8739mxnxoi.fsf@fh-trier.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299620464 9849 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2011 21:41:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 21:41:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 22:41:00 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Px4eG-0007W7-1n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:40:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43255 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Px4eF-00025x-Ev for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:40:55 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!kanaga.switch.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1299617469 25305 143.93.54.11 (8 Mar 2011 20:51:09 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 20:51:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kNudQUmcIOGjLBYGoRoTGaLBAj8= Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-101-103.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:185746 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:79900 Archived-At: bclark76 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