From: Xiao-Yong Jin <xj2106@columbia.edu>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Text Formatting?
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:08:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ods7dcas.fsf@presario.homeunix.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44d0d9630610191212g35aa3474l60f5cac43e6e01ed@mail.gmail.com> (Ed Hirgelt's message of "Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:12:41 -0700")
"Ed Hirgelt" <ehirgelt@gmail.com> writes:
> On 10/19/06, Xiao-Yong Jin <xj2106@columbia.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi, how do you usually format the text body? I found it frustrating
> if I just want to paste something from somewhere else.
>
> * List
> 1. list
> 2. list
> 3. list
>
> indent-region doesn't seem to work very well except the list was
> format as the way that there's no space before the bullet
>
> You probably want to look at filladapt. This provides ways to fill lists of
> various types.
Org-Mode is already doing this, I guess. When you press M-RET, it
inserts the prefix automatically. I just want to find a way that is
similar to M-C-\ (indent-region) so that I can paste a block of text
and reformat it easily.
>
>
> * QUOTE Carsten said
> : blah blah blah...
> : and blah blah blah...
>
> Something like this you can also handle by setting the prefix string (^X . is
> bound to set-fill-prefix)
>
> C-x . runs `set-fill-prefix'
>
> `set-fill-prefix' is an interactive compiled Lisp function
> -- loaded from "/usr/src/xemacs-21.4.19/.build/lisp/fill.elc"
> (set-fill-prefix)
>
> Documentation:
> Set the fill prefix to the current line up to point.
> Filling expects lines to start with the fill prefix and
> reinserts the fill prefix in each resulting line.
This is good. Make it much easier to write some thing. However, it
doesn't help for reformatting.
>
>
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2006-10-19 19:05 Text Formatting? Xiao-Yong Jin
2006-10-19 19:12 ` Ed Hirgelt
2006-10-20 1:08 ` Xiao-Yong Jin [this message]
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