From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to automatically align to first word of previous line? Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 22:14:10 -0500 Message-ID: <jwvwnh3ddls.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <courier.00000000622077E5.00005A08@stw1.rcdrun.com> <jwv35jsf6k3.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <YigFvD9N6wP20pvt@protected.localdomain> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12737"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Mjk5svdbqCmXdnVpLY9xShZmwOA= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 04:15:00 2022 Return-path: <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org> Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org>) id 1nRmmy-00037v-MD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2022 04:15:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36050 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org>) id 1nRmmx-0001yw-8b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2022 22:14:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:57240) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from <geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org>) id 1nRmmL-0001yk-0L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2022 22:14:21 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:53618) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from <geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org>) id 1nRmmJ-0005Fv-Hb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2022 22:14:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from <geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org>) id 1nRmmH-0002Nw-Gi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2022 04:14:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/help-gnu-emacs>, <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs> List-Post: <mailto:help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs>, <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org> Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:136415 Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/136415> 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