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From: jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
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Subject: Re: Two EMACS Questions
Keywords: tabs, hanging indents
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Date: 6 Sep 89 19:44:22 GMT
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In article <574@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> eberard@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Edward Berard) writes:

	   1. Is there a way in emacs to create "hanging indents" like
	      this one? What I would like is to be able to create a
	      paragraph formatted like this one, and not have to shift
	      each line, re-format, etc. myself.

indented-text-mode handles this nicely in combination with auto-fill-mode.

	   2. I have a large (approximately 600 lines) file. Each line in
	      the file looks like two strings separated by a tab. Since
	      the length of the first string varies, the tab is not in
	      the same place in each line. Is there any way to tell emacs
	      to take every line in the file and cause the second string
	      in each line to begin at the same column?

If I didn't need to do this often, I would just define a keyboard macro
and apply the macro to each line of the file with ESC 1000 C-x e.
Use M-x indent-to inside of the macro.  (The keyboard macro should always
move down one line when it is done.)

   I actually have more, word-processing related questions. Are there
   some documents on the use of emacs as a wp? Normally, I use word
   processors like MS Word 4.0 on the Mac. However, when I wish to send
   mail on the net, I am forced to use emacs. (I have nothing against
   emacs, it is just the only thing like a wp that is available on the
   machine I use.)

Emacs does not fall neatly in the category of programs called "word
processors".  Word processing is half editing and half typesetting.  Emacs
handles the editing part nicely, but to do word processing you need
another program to handle the typesetting part.  I use both troff and TeX
for that purpose.

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