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From: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: indenting in emacs
Message-ID: <453@talos.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 89 13:45:13 GMT
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Reply-To: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Organization: Philip Morris Research Center, Richmond, VA
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Robert W Langer writes:
>Is there a way to have emacs indent each line the same as the last
>instead of going back to the margin each time return is hit.  This is
>used in some programming editors, and I was wondering if there was a
>way to do it in emacs, hopefully as a mode.

[ Let's not forget that this is a forum for discussion of all types of Emacs
  editors.  Most nontrivial questions have different answers depending
  on the Emacs used.  Please be specific as to which Emacs you use. ]

I'll answer w.r.t GNU Emacs.

Use Indented Text mode and bind RET to newline-and-indent.

`M-x indented-text-mode' gets you into Indented Text mode and you can
put the following in your .emacs file to make the binding apply only
to Indented Text mode.

(define-key indented-text-mode-map "\r" 'newline-and-indent)