Re: Enriched mode: avoid removing my manual indents

["Alexandre Oberlin" <email_through@migo.info>]

Thanks Drew for your reply. Maybe this behavior is not a bug but it is  
certainly confusing to me.

I can use C-x TAB "increase-left-margin" of course, but then it changes  
the indentation of the whole previous paragraph! Typing RET or explicitely  
calling open-line does not seem to create a paragraph boundary. In order  
to create a new paragraph with a new indentation, it seems that I must:
1. type a series of RET (to be able to navigate afterwards without typing  
RET);
2. go to the first line in this series;
3. indent as desired and type text;
4. go to the next line using down arrow (RET would fall back to the  
previous indentation);
5. type TAB to apply the same indentation as the previous line and type  
text.

Ain’t this a bit awkward ?


Alexandre


  On Mon, 27 May 2013 15:25:46 +0200, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>  
wrote:

>> I just don’t get the rationale of it and why it is so hard to disable.  
>> All
>> I want from enriched mode is persistent colors/bold/italic, otherwise  
>> the
>> standard indentation behavior of fundamental-mode and text-mode is OK  
>> for
>> me. I tried indent-to-column, use-hard-newlines and indented-text-mode
>> with no avail. Maybe I should try org-mode but I don’t have so much time
>> to learn such things.
>> >
>> > I use enriched mode extensively but if I start a new line say on  
>> column
>> > 8, then why does enriched mode think that is an error and put it back  
>> to
>> > beginning of line as soon as I type return ?
>
> You can use `M-x report-emacs-bug' to submit an enhancement request.  If  
> enriched mode couples indenting text with coloring it, and the two  
> cannot be dissociated, that sounds like something that could be improved.
>
> It's best to give a complete and simple recipe to repro the problematic  
> behavior, starting from `emacs -Q'.
>


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Alexandre Oberlin
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