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I often have a list of items, and like it to look like this:

  \item bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla 
        bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
        bla bla bla bla

etc. I write it like that, and as I type in more lines, they get
nicely margined in the same way.

However, if I now change the text, and then reformat using ESC-q,
it changes to

  \item bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla 
    bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla  
    bla bla bla bla

Can I force it to keep my chosen margins?
-- 
Dieter Britz