From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Simple emacs setup for general prose? Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:31:44 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300387245 26085 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2011 18:40:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:40:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 17 19:40:41 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 1Q0I7j-0004Pb-Fy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:40:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38107 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q0I7i-0007F7-TM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:40:38 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!17g2000prr.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 116.73.35.230 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1300386705 20370 127.0.0.1 (17 Mar 2011 18:31:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:31:45 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 17g2000prr.googlegroups.com; posting-host=116.73.35.230; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186073 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:80214 Archived-At: On Mar 8, 11:44=A0pm, bclark76 wrote: > I'd like to edit prose using emacs. =A0Is 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. =A0I 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. How about this? M-x text-mode M-x visual-line-mode Probably wont work on emacs versions < 23