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From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: turning off automatic indentation
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 06:06:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3smxnsis3.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: sFnC9.500$vP7.54919410@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com

"Howard E. Haber" <hhaber@pacbell.net> writes:

> Dear Sir or Madam:
>      It has come to my attention...
>
> by the time I get to the second line of the letter, emacs automatically
> aligns that line under the sentence ("It has come to my attention...").  I
> would prefer to have the wordwrapping feature start the second line fully
> left justified and not indented.

You want `M-x paragraph-indent-text-mode'.

> I am looking for some appropriate command for my .emacs file, but I
> have not found it.

I was going to suggest 

  (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'paragraph-indent-minor-mode)

But unfortunately that's broken in the current version of Emacs.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-27  5:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-19  9:39 turning off automatic indentation Howard E. Haber
2002-11-27  5:06 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2002-12-02 20:03   ` Kevin Rodgers
2002-12-02 23:06     ` Jesper Harder

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