'smart' indentation

[Michael Powe <michael@trollope.org>]

hello,

i would like to have 'smart' indentation, à la some editors i use like
textpad.  if i indent a line, then when i press enter at the end of
the line, i want point to go to the indented position on the following
line.  i can't find the way to make this work.  it looks like
'adaptive-fill-mode' should do this, but it does not.  having to go
back and 'indent-region' is annoying.

thanks.

mp

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  Michael Powe                                 Waterbury, CT USA
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