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From: kjones@talos.uucp (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Two EMACS Questions
Message-ID: <1989Sep7.175620.16036@talos.uucp>
Date: 7 Sep 89 17:56:20 GMT
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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.

Joe Wells writes:
 > indented-text-mode handles this nicely in combination with
 > auto-fill-mode.

Well, it handles hanging indentes but not very well.  If Edward had
typed the above paragraph using indented-text-mode and auto-fill-mode
the first characters of the second line would be indented to fall under
the `1', not the `I' in "Is" as it should be.

Quite a while ago I wrote a package called "filladapt" that handles this
correctly, and takes care of several other special cases where normal
filling/word wrap fails.  I'll post it to the emacs groups today.