From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: fill-paragraph: multi-level indentations / enumerations?
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:25:35 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb865350-5c27-4c9f-9e9a-e554fbf3cfcf@f40g2000pri.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8990a4ca-9688-43b8-9b51-cfc09ab9ff46@k9g2000vbl.googlegroups.com
On Feb 5, 8:32 am, Markus Dehmann <markus.dehm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The fill-paragraph function in my emacs 21.4.1 (on linux) is missing
> some basic understanding of multi-level indentations or enumerations.
>
> If I am in text-mode and I type
> (1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> blah blah blah
> (1.1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> blah blah
>
> and fill-paragraph will change it to this:
> (1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> blah blah blah (1.1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> blah blah blah blah blah
>
> But of course I want the correct indentation instead:
> (1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> blah blah blah
> (1.1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> blah
> blah
>
> How can I do that? Can I modify the fill-paragraph function so that it
> understands hierarchical indentations?
Basically no, you'll have to write your own, which should be very
easy. Prob 30 min to 1h for me.
> My emacs version on the Mac
> does it
aquaemacs or carbon emacs? what version? I can't reproduce it.
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-06 2:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-05 16:32 fill-paragraph: multi-level indentations / enumerations? Markus Dehmann
2009-02-06 2:25 ` Xah Lee [this message]
2009-02-06 3:02 ` Markus Dehmann
2009-02-06 4:06 ` Xah Lee
2009-02-06 5:07 ` Andreas Politz
2009-02-07 16:56 ` Phil Hudson
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