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From: carlson@betelgeuse (Richard L. Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MicroEmacs
Summary: auto-indent broken
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Date: 25 Jan 89 20:21:41 GMT
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On the subject of MicroEmacs...

In previous versions (e.g. from the 1.2 Extras), the newline-and-indent
(^J) function performed fine.  The new 1.3 version, however, seems to
have taken a giant leap backwards.  If you're in "C" mode (editing a
file ending with '.c', I presume), ^J no longer indents the next line
to the same level as your current line--it adds 4 extra spaces!  ^J
still seems to work properly, though, if you're *not* in "C" mode.

Maybe there's another keystroke that you can use to indent to the same
level while in "C" mode?  It's a real pain to have to indent each line
manually.  But I don't want to give up "C" mode entirely because it
does do nice things like match braces.  The 1.3 Enhancer documentation
is no help at all on these points; I couldn't find any mention at all
of ^J.  And the menu selections don't seem to offer any alternatives.

Also, there are two other features that I am dying to have:  the ability
to edit lines longer than 80 characters, and the ability to edit binary
files.  Maybe I should switch to MicroGnuEmacs (or whatever it's called
these days); can it do these things?

Please email any responses; I promise to summarize to the net.  Thanks.

-- Richard
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