From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bclark76 Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Simple emacs setup for general prose? Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:44:14 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299629231 21886 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2011 00:07:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 00:07:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 01:07:07 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Px6vi-0000ND-SO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:07:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55782 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Px6vh-0004AK-Vn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:07:06 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!q12g2000prb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.15.146.254 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1299609854 30245 127.0.0.1 (8 Mar 2011 18:44:14 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 18:44:14 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q12g2000prb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=12.15.146.254; posting-account=fHo6QwoAAABi2fIlZjVfwW2wzsGEAgWd User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:185738 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:06:17 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:79905 Archived-At: I'd like to edit prose using emacs. Is there a mode where I can smoothly type prose? I want paragraphs to look like this: *TAB*Here is the start of a paragraph that I want emacs to autofill. notice how it begins with a tab character on the first line, and the second and subsequent lines do not start with the tab character. this ALMOST seems possible using M-x text then M-x fill, but unfortunately my paragraphs come out as below. *TAB*The preceeding tab actually gets converted to spaces which *TAB*I do not want. I also don't want this line to be indented at all! *TAB*If I want emacs to format this paragraph the way I want, I have *TAB*to manually delete the tab ( which has actually been converted *TAB*to spaces ) on the second line before continuing to type. *TAB*I want to be able to end my paragraph by pressing RET twice followed by a TAB and have the paragraph automatically auto filled to appear as this one. Thanks, and sorry for the NOOB question.