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From: rab@cbnews.ATT.COM (robert.a.biedenharn)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: auto-fill-indent-right-margin
Summary: setq fill-prefix "spaces", C-x .
Message-ID: <9367@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 6 Sep 89 13:45:33 GMT
References: <1054@bimacs.BITNET>
Reply-To: rab@cbnews.ATT.COM (robert.a.biedenharn,cb,)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1054@bimacs.BITNET> yedidya@bimacs.BITNET (Yedidya Israel) writes:
>Is there a .el file that enter emacs into a (minor) mode that makes
>auto indentation on both margins, i.e. pad line with some spaces here
>and there in order to make a right margin.

Actually, Auto-Fill mode does what you want.  C-x .  (I think, no emacs on
the news machine!)  sets the variable  fill-prefix  to be the stuff between
the beginning of the line and the point.  Auto fills will put this on the newly
create line before the wrapped text.  (And fill-paragraph works, too.)

Rob          ..!att!cbsck!rab