On Apr 8, 8:17 pm, Stephen Compall <[email protected]> wrote:
> Divia <[email protected]> writes:
> > I was wondering if there was a way in emacs to automate this, so that
> > if I pressed tab in the middle of a string that followed
> > the :documentation keyword, it would automatically line it up like
> > that.  My apologies if this is a stupid or obvious question--I've been
> > emacs for years, but know embarrassingly little about it.
>
> It's dangerous for indent to do that, because Emacs doesn't know when
> whitespace is semantically relevant (imagine running `indent-region' on
> a big blob with lots of strings containing newlines).
>
> If you use M-q (fill-paragraph) or auto-fill-mode, you'll get that
> indentation, though.  Theoretically, you could write a simple Emacs Lisp
> function that replaced all "\n[ \t]+" with " " in the string around
> point and re-called fill-paragraph.
>
> --
> Sorry but you say Nibiru is a Hoax?  Doesnt Exist?  So maybe The
> Sumerian people doesnt exist also! --Anonymous by way of SkI

Thanks very much.  M-q is exactly what I needed.
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