From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Pollard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: [NEWBIE] Questions Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 11:38:31 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v543) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050172749 28813 80.91.224.249 (12 Apr 2003 18:39:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 18:39:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 12 20:39:08 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 194Pu8-0007UY-00 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 20:39:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 194Ptl-0006vX-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 14:38:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 194Ptc-0006tk-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 14:38:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 194Pta-0006sh-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 14:38:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-out2.apple.com ([17.254.0.51]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 194PtZ-0006ro-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 14:38:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate2.apple.com (A17-129-100-225.apple.com [17.129.100.225]) by mail-out2.apple.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3CIcWQd005736 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 11:38:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from scv2.apple.com (scv2.apple.com) by mailgate2.apple.com for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 11:38:31 -0700 Original-Received: from RobertDevSys ([17.101.117.23]) by scv2.apple.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3CIcVbN014946 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 11:38:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.543) 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:8417 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8417 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\\|[ ]*$" Local in buffer ; global value is "[ \n\f]" paragraph-separate's value is "\f\\|[ ]*$" Local in buffer ; 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- 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