From: Robert Pollard <rpollard@apple.com>
Subject: [NEWBIE] Questions
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 11:38:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F59E26A0-6D15-11D7-BB57-0003930A6566@apple.com> (raw)
Hi all,
I have tried finding the answers to these questions before posting. I
apologize up front for any of these questions that are in the docs that
I missed.
1. Is there a way to adjust the indent space provided by the auto-fill
functionality between the topic number and the text. As in the
following example:
1. lkajsdf lsdfl sadfl dfljasldflkjsdflk asld fls
jsdfj asdfl lasdflj asdflj lsdf l jasdf lj sf s
Is there a way to adjust the space between the number 1. and the text?
It appears to be a default amount.
2. If you have an outline and you need to move topics around is there a
way to renumber the topics?
i.e.
2. lkjasdf alkjdasf alsdf alsdjfl asldf
1. asdfsld fl sadf ls dfl lasdfl asdf
3. kljasdf lasdjf ljasdf asdj flkj asdf
3. Why would a auto-fill not format the paragraph the way it does 99%
of the other topics?
i.e.
The way it normally formats the paragraphs is:
1. asdfj asdfjljasdf lkjsdfj slkdjflj sdf sdfj lsdjf
sdf ksdf ;sadkf; ksdfk;sldk f;lsdl f;slk df;lask f
On 2 occasions it formatted like:
1. sjdfj asdfsldjfljasld flkj asdfj alsdj fkasdlfj las
sdjflasdjf lkjsdfk asdj lksdjflk asdlkf lsflk sdlfk sl
I had to manually insert the tab/spaces for the second line.
4. I prefer not to have the paragraph indicators as a line feed for end
of the paragraph as it appears to be on default. I much prefer a
carriage return to indicate the end of the paragraph. As it stands,
you have to have a blank line between paragraphs to indicate the end of
the paragraph. The start of the paragraph variable (paragraph-start)
appears to have the correct pattern for indicating how the paragraph
should end for my purposes. This is what my variable values are now:
paragraph-start's value is "\f\\|[ ]*$"
Local in buffer <buffer-name>; global value is "[ \n\f]"
paragraph-separate's value is "\f\\|[ ]*$"
Local in buffer <buffer-name>; global value is "[ \f]*$"
The question's are:
1. Checking the space between the brackets it appears to be 2 spaces
and then a tab. Is this correct? And, if so, why are these characters
used?
2. Why is there a different value for global and the current buffer?
It appears there may be some kind of continuation pattern being used
for each variable. I do understand basic regular expressions but I
don't fully understand these patterns.
5. I am running version 21.2.1 under Cygwin on an Intel system.
Certain key equivalents that I have gotten used to over the time that I
have been using Emacs are not working anymore. I have to type the
commands in instead.
They are:
C-x C-c Quit Emacs
C-h v Describe a variable
C-h i Info docs
C-<spc> Set a mark
Why would these key equivalents not work? This is my first time for
using Emacs in Cygwin but I thought the key equivalents would be the
same on all systems.
I will try to limit the number of questions per posting but I do have
others.
Thanks for your time,
Robert Pollard
next reply other threads:[~2003-04-12 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-12 18:38 Robert Pollard [this message]
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2003-04-12 21:26 ` [NEWBIE] Questions Kai Großjohann
2003-04-14 18:19 ` Robert Pollard
2003-04-14 18:47 ` Kai Großjohann
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