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From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to automatically align to first word of previous line?
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2022 19:18:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czj2sxv7.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: courier.00000000622077E5.00005A08@stw1.rcdrun.com

Jean Louis wrote:

> I have this particular situation below, where I would like
> to avoid position (1) and rather get automatically into the
> position (2), where text after ❰    ❱ shall be automatically
> aligned in the second line to the begin of first word in the
> first line.
>
> Position 1:
>
> ❰    ❱ Next step is to report the school and abuses of children'
> rights to Ministry of Education.
>
> Position 2:
>
> ❰    ❱ Next step is to report the school and abuses of children'
>        rights to Ministry of Education.
>
> I see that TAB works, the text moves to first line, though
> is there any way in Emacs to automatically invoke
> such alignment?

If you align the second row manually rows after that are
aligned with `fill-paragraph'.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-03 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-03  8:11 How to automatically align to first word of previous line? Jean Louis
2022-03-03 18:18 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2022-03-08  8:34 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-08  8:40 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-08 21:24   ` Jean Louis
2022-03-08 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-09  1:41   ` Jean Louis
2022-03-09  3:14     ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-04-05 21:32 ` TRS-80
2022-06-15  6:20   ` Jean Louis

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