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From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to automatically align to first word of previous line?
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 22:14:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwnh3ddls.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: YigFvD9N6wP20pvt@protected.localdomain

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




  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-09  3:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-03  8:11 How to automatically align to first word of previous line? Jean Louis
2022-03-03 18:18 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-08  8:34 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-08  8:40 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-08 21:24   ` Jean Louis
2022-03-08 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-09  1:41   ` Jean Louis
2022-03-09  3:14     ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2022-04-05 21:32 ` TRS-80
2022-06-15  6:20   ` Jean Louis

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