From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Roodwriter@core.com" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Wordprocessor behaviour Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 16:57:34 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <84znk8fte1.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> Reply-To: Roodwriter@core.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1056403062 23254 80.91.224.249 (23 Jun 2003 21:17:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 21:17:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 23 23:17:39 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19UYh0-00062T-00 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:17:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19UYQQ-0001BW-R0 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:00:30 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: KNode/0.7.1 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 46 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114659 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:11156 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11156 Kai Großjohann wrote: > "Roodwriter@core.com" writes: > >> If you do tab in regular text mode EVERY line after that will be tabbed. >> Frankly I find it easier to type things out in block form like this and >> use a macro to convert the paragraphs. It's easier because I don't >> accidentally hit the Caps Lock key and start eVERY PARAGRAPH LIKE THIS. > > There is a mode, paragraph-indent-text-mode, that provides the > paragraph format you see here. > A line starting with whitespace starts a new paragraph in this > mode. It used to be called just text-mode. > > Also, if you remove the whitespace from the second line manually, > then you will get the behavior you want. > I am mystified. I must have tried this a year ago with my last upgrade since I discovered I bound that command to a function key when I tried your suggestion. But I must have had some problem--one I can't recall--since I stopped using it. But it seems to work just fine now. I don't know why. That being said it appears using refill mode and paragraph-indent-text-mode together may be a winner for writing text documents--except for the drawback that you'll still get short lines, which not everyone will consider a drawback. (You can macro that problem away, though, or use longlines.) Personally, I'll stick with the block paragraph method because of the LaTeX issue, the fact that that's the style I use when I'm taking notes (it's faster), the caps lock problem and, simply, it's now a habit with me. But this may be the solution for many other people. --Rod -- Author of "Linux for Non-Geeks--Clear-eyed Answers for Practical Consumers" and "Boring Stories from Uncle Rod." Both are available at http://www.rodwriterpublishing.com/index.html To reply by e-mail, take the extra "o" out of my e-mail address. It's to confuse spambots, of course.