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From: jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Two EMACS Questions
Message-ID: <37723@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 7 Sep 89 22:24:47 GMT
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In article <1989Sep7.175620.16036@talos.uucp> kjones@talos.uucp (Kyle Jones) writes:

   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.

At this point, you type TAB once, and then you are in the correct place,
with the cursor below the 'I' in "Is".  If you were to type TAB again, the
cursor would be below the 't' in "there".  Subsequent lines will be
indented to the same level.

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