How to automatically align to first word of previous line?

How to automatically align to first word of previous line?

[Jean Louis]

I have this particular situation below, where I would like to avoid
position (1) and rather get automatically into the position (2), where
text after ❰    ❱ shall be automatically aligned in the second line to
the begin of first word in the first line.

Position 1:

❰    ❱ Next step is to report the school and abuses of children'
rights to Ministry of Education.


Position 2:

❰    ❱ Next step is to report the school and abuses of children'
       rights to Ministry of Education.

I see that TAB works, the text moves to first line, though is there
any way in Emacs to automatically invoke such alignment?


Jean

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Re: How to automatically align to first word of previous line?

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

Jean Louis wrote:

> I have this particular situation below, where I would like
> to avoid position (1) and rather get automatically into the
> position (2), where text after ❰    ❱ shall be automatically
> aligned in the second line to the begin of first word in the
> first line.
>
> Position 1:
>
> ❰    ❱ Next step is to report the school and abuses of children'
> rights to Ministry of Education.
>
> Position 2:
>
> ❰    ❱ Next step is to report the school and abuses of children'
>        rights to Ministry of Education.
>
> I see that TAB works, the text moves to first line, though
> is there any way in Emacs to automatically invoke
> such alignment?

If you align the second row manually rows after that are
aligned with `fill-paragraph'.

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Re: How to automatically align to first word of previous line?

[Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> I see that TAB works, the text moves to first line, though is there
> any way in Emacs to automatically invoke such alignment?


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Re: How to automatically align to first word of previous line?

[Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

Oops! I sent the previous message by mistake.

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> I see that TAB works, the text moves to first line, though is there
> any way in Emacs to automatically invoke such alignment?

Would Auto Fill mode be suitable?
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Re: How to automatically align to first word of previous line?

[Jean Louis]

* Kevin Vigouroux <ke.vigouroux@laposte.net> [2022-03-08 11:41]:
> Oops! I sent the previous message by mistake.
> 
> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> 
> > I see that TAB works, the text moves to first line, though is there
> > any way in Emacs to automatically invoke such alignment?
> 
> Would Auto Fill mode be suitable?

Thanks, I do use auto-fill-mode and I see I have to keep pushing TAB
in second line until it starts aligning itself automatically.

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Re: How to automatically align to first word of previous line?

[Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

> I see that TAB works, the text moves to first line, though is there
> any way in Emacs to automatically invoke such alignment?

What major mode are you using?


        Stefan

Re: How to automatically align to first word of previous line?

[Jean Louis]

* Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2022-03-09 01:08]:
> > I see that TAB works, the text moves to first line, though is there
> > any way in Emacs to automatically invoke such alignment?
> 
> What major mode are you using?

Just fundamental I guess.

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Re: How to automatically align to first word of previous line?

[Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

Jean Louis [2022-03-09 04:41:16] wrote:
> * Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2022-03-09 01:08]:
>> > I see that TAB works, the text moves to first line, though is there
>> > any way in Emacs to automatically invoke such alignment?
>> What major mode are you using?
> Just fundamental I guess.

Then try something like `text-mode`, maybe try playing with
`paragraph-indent-minor-mode`, or `adaptive-fill-mode`.
You may also want to check the various `adaptive-fill-prefix` variables.
Oh, and GNU ELPA has `filladapt-mode` which could also be a way to
a solution.


        Stefan

Re: How to automatically align to first word of previous line?

[TRS-80]

On 2022-03-03 03:11, Jean Louis wrote:
> I have this particular situation below, where I would like to avoid
> position (1) and rather get automatically into the position (2), where
> text after ❰    ❱ shall be automatically aligned in the second line to
> the begin of first word in the first line.
> 
> Position 1:
> 
> ❰    ❱ Next step is to report the school and abuses of children'
> rights to Ministry of Education.
> 
> 
> Position 2:
> 
> ❰    ❱ Next step is to report the school and abuses of children'
>        rights to Ministry of Education.
> 
> I see that TAB works, the text moves to first line, though is there
> any way in Emacs to automatically invoke such alignment?
> 

It looks to me like you want a list of check boxes?  If so, Org Mode 
will do this, and along with ~adaptive-wrap-prefix-mode~, will also soft 
wrap the left side automatically.

Which reminds me, you did not specify if you wanted a 'hard' (inserting 
actual spaces/tabs) or 'soft' (display only) wrapping.  Most of other 
solutions mentioned will give you the former.  But maybe that's what you 
want?

Cheers,
TRS-80

Re: How to automatically align to first word of previous line?

[Jean Louis]

* TRS-80 <lists.trs-80@isnotmyreal.name> [2022-04-06 00:33]:
> On 2022-03-03 03:11, Jean Louis wrote:
> > I have this particular situation below, where I would like to avoid
> > position (1) and rather get automatically into the position (2), where
> > text after ❰    ❱ shall be automatically aligned in the second line to
> > the begin of first word in the first line.
> > 
> > Position 1:
> > 
> > ❰    ❱ Next step is to report the school and abuses of children'
> > rights to Ministry of Education.
> > 
> > 
> > Position 2:
> > 
> > ❰    ❱ Next step is to report the school and abuses of children'
> >        rights to Ministry of Education.
> > 
> > I see that TAB works, the text moves to first line, though is there
> > any way in Emacs to automatically invoke such alignment?
> > 
> 
> It looks to me like you want a list of check boxes?  If so, Org Mode will do
> this, and along with ~adaptive-wrap-prefix-mode~, will also soft wrap the
> left side automatically.
> 
> Which reminds me, you did not specify if you wanted a 'hard' (inserting
> actual spaces/tabs) or 'soft' (display only) wrapping.  Most of other
> solutions mentioned will give you the former.  But maybe that's what you
> want?

I still did not find specific solution for this.

I would like spaces in new lines to align to first word after ❰    ❱

What I need is similar to following condition:

       Somewhat indented text RET
       in the next line follows
       aligned to the first word

❰    ❱ Then in this line I would like that ❰    ❱
       is ignored so that next line get aligned
       to the first word in this paragraph "Then".
       
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