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Praveen Sundar
Praveen Sundar

Reputation: 89

Emacs 24.5 new line indenting in text mode

I'm using emacs 24.5 in cygwin. I need to indent to 4 spaces in text mode and when I press enter, the newline should align with the indentation of the previous line. I've tried the following. 

(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)  
(setq-default tab-width 4)  
(setq-default electric-indent-mode 1)

But, when I press enter instead of indenting the current line, it removes the indentation of the previous line as well. Like this 

    This is the first line. When I press enter, this line becomes...  
This is the first line  
New line - cursor is not indented in this new line.

How do I get the required indentation?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 286

Answers (1)

Stefan
Stefan

Reputation: 28531

You might want to try

(add-hook 'text-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (setq-local left-margin 4)))

instead of your use of tab-width (which is usually the wrong tool for indentation purposes).

Upvotes: 1

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