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- From: me@Sunburn.? (Martin Frost)
- Subject: Re: Filling without using tabs
- In-Reply-To: wayne@sw.stratus.com's message of 11 Dec 92 18:52:57 GMT
- Message-ID: <ME.92Dec14005509@Sunburn.?>
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- Reply-To: me@CS.Stanford.EDU
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <1gao29INNiek@transfer.stratus.com>
- Distribution: alt
- Date: 14 Dec 92 00:55:09
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- In article <1gao29INNiek@transfer.stratus.com> wayne@sw.stratus.com (Wayne Newberry) writes:
-
- I currently turn on auto-fill and I'd prefer to have
- Lucid Emacs fill using only spaces, rather than a
- combination of tabs and spaces. Is there any way to
- make this happen?
-
-
- I have almost the exact opposite problem. I have paragraphs that look
- like:
-
- 14 Dec 92 1.23 me Some text that goes on for multiple lines, with
- each continuation line starting with 3 tabs.
- The first line of the paragraph has one tab to
- make the text line up with the continuation lines.
-
- In emacs 18.58, I could set the fill-prefix to be three tabs and then use
- M-q to fill such a paragraph and it would preserve the tab in the first
- line of the paragraph. Lucid Emacs 19.3, however, turns that tab into a
- single space, destroying the format.
-
- 14 Dec 92 1.23 me Some text that goes on for multiple lines, with each
- continuation line starting with 3 tabs. The first
- line of the paragraph has one tab to make the text
- line up with the continuation lines.
-
- Is this a bug or a (mis)feature? Is there a variable I can change to get
- the old functionality back?
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- Martin Frost Computer Science Department, Computer Facilities
- Systems Programmer Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2140
- me@CS.Stanford.EDU (or decwrl!labrea!me or mfrost@stanford.bitnet)
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