On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 01:52:59 +0100 Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> At 15:53 07/09/2014 -0700, Jerry Noname wrote: > >Is there a way to get Writer to preserve the tab indenting from > >the previous line on which I was typing? > > I hope not. If you indent the first line of a paragraph using a tab > character and you want this behaviour repeated, you would have tab > characters at the beginning of every line. So far so (apparently) > good. What he wants is known in the Unix text editor as "auto-indent." It is *exceedingly* convenient. With AI on: Once you indent: All subsequent lines are automatically equally indented. You "undent" by either (repeatedly) keying the undent key or returning to command mode (vi is a modal editor) on a fresh line. It may sound confusing to the uninitiated, but, to somebody experienced with the editor, it is very fast. As with nearly everything in vi: Ones fingers need never leave the keyboard. (Even with GUI re-implementations of the editor.) Some of us, and some time-and-motion experts, think the mouse was the worst thing ever invented ;) > But then what happens when you edit the text and material > flows naturally between lines? The tabs flow into positions other > than at the beginning of the lines and you get a mess! [snip] The vi editor, being a text editor primarily designed for writing code, doesn't re-flow. (Tho it does have crude word wrap.) But the simple editor in my email client does. It (usually) re-flows the text, maintaining the indent w/in the paragraph. TBH: LOW not being a programming editor, I don't know as auto-indent would be all that handy, even if there was a dedicated toolbar button or hotkey to enable/disable it, but there have been times *I* wished it had it, and certainly the behaviour is doable. Then again: I "grew up" with vi, so its behaviour is second nature to me :). Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at <http://jimsun.LinxNet.com/contact/scform.php>. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
