Converting document from hard whitespace indentation to org-indent-mode

Converting document from hard whitespace indentation to org-indent-mode

[Max Brieiev]

Several of my documents use indentation to line up with the headings,
like below:

* Top level headline
  paragraph
  + list item lorem ipsum
    dolor sit amet
** Second level
   some text
*** Third level
    more text

I would like to strip leading whitespace, so that I could switch to
=org-indent-mode= to have a nice view of the document instead of using
hard whitespace indentation.

Basically I want to:
- strip leading whitespace,
- but preserve the indentation of lists and src blocks
- refill all paragraphs according to what =org-fill-paragragh= would do.

How would I do it programmatically? My current Elisp knowledge is poor.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Converting document from hard whitespace indentation to org-indent-mode

[Samuel Wales]

i think that default has changed to your preference in recent versions
[according to ml discussions].  which, i agree with.

On 1/12/22, Max Brieiev <max.brieiev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Several of my documents use indentation to line up with the headings,
> like below:
>
> * Top level headline
>   paragraph
>   + list item lorem ipsum
>     dolor sit amet
> ** Second level
>    some text
> *** Third level
>     more text
>
> I would like to strip leading whitespace, so that I could switch to
> =org-indent-mode= to have a nice view of the document instead of using
> hard whitespace indentation.
>
> Basically I want to:
> - strip leading whitespace,
> - but preserve the indentation of lists and src blocks
> - refill all paragraphs according to what =org-fill-paragragh= would do.
>
> How would I do it programmatically? My current Elisp knowledge is poor.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>


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