Kate and auto-indent (was: Re: Detailed Leafpad manual [not just manpage]?)

2022-12-06 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, December 06, 2022 09:53:11 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > It worked acceptabily on Debian 9.13 . I have to read manual to see if I > can make a cosmetic tweak. If you describe the cosmetic tweak you need, I (or someone else) *might* be able to help. -- rhk If you reply: snip, snip,

Re: Detailed Leafpad manual [not just manpage]?

2022-12-06 Thread Richard Owlett
Richard Owlett wrote: rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, December 06, 2022 07:01:07 AM Richard Owlett wrote: I just tried it on both of my machines. It lacks ability to set the right margin. I want to insert a paragraph such that the effective LEFT margin [when line wraps at RIGHT margin]

Re: Detailed Leafpad manual [not just manpage]?

2022-12-06 Thread Richard Owlett
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, December 06, 2022 07:01:07 AM Richard Owlett wrote: I just tried it on both of my machines. It lacks ability to set the right margin. I want to insert a paragraph such that the effective LEFT margin [when line wraps at RIGHT margin] is the indent level.

Re: Detailed Leafpad manual [not just manpage]?

2022-12-06 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, December 06, 2022 07:01:07 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > I just tried it on both of my machines. > It lacks ability to set the right margin. I want to insert a paragraph > such that the effective LEFT margin [when line wraps at RIGHT margin] is > the indent level. Just as a followup to

Re: Detailed Leafpad manual [not just manpage]?

2022-12-06 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, December 06, 2022 07:01:07 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > I just tried it on both of my machines. > It lacks ability to set the right margin. I want to insert a paragraph > such that the effective LEFT margin [when line wraps at RIGHT margin] is > the indent level. I started to write a

Re: Detailed Leafpad manual [not just manpage]?

2022-12-06 Thread Richard Owlett
Richard Owlett wrote: Andreas Rönnquist wrote: On Sun, 4 Dec 2022 05:29:58 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to document a personal project.The desired format will resemble the outline for term papers we wrote in school in the 50's. Except some items may be a short paragraph or two long. I

Re: Detailed Leafpad manual [not just manpage]?

2022-12-06 Thread Richard Owlett
Richard Owlett wrote: Andreas Rönnquist wrote: On Sun, 4 Dec 2022 05:29:58 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to document a personal project.The desired format will resemble the outline for term papers we wrote in school in the 50's. Except some items may be a short paragraph or two long. I

Re: Detailed Leafpad manual [not just manpage]?

2022-12-05 Thread Richard Owlett
Andreas Rönnquist wrote: On Sun, 4 Dec 2022 05:29:58 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to document a personal project.The desired format will resemble the outline for term papers we wrote in school in the 50's. Except some items may be a short paragraph or two long. I did a web search for

Re: Detailed Leafpad manual [not just manpage]?

2022-12-04 Thread Bob McGowan
On 12/4/22 03:29 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to document a personal project.The desired format will resemble the outline for term papers we wrote in school in the 50's. Except some items may be a short paragraph or two long. I did a web search for text editors with an auto-indent

Re: Detailed Leafpad manual [not just manpage]?

2022-12-04 Thread Siard
On Sun, 4 Dec 2022 05:29 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I wish to document a personal project.The desired format will resemble > the outline for term papers we wrote in school in the 50's. Except some > items may be a short paragraph or two long. Like some others here, I can only guess what

Re: Detailed Leafpad manual [not just manpage]?

2022-12-04 Thread Curt
On 2022-12-04, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 04 Dec 2022 at 05:29:58 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: >> I wish to document a personal project.The desired format will resemble >> the outline for term papers we wrote in school in the 50's. Except >> some items may be a short paragraph or two long. >

Re: Detailed Leafpad manual [not just manpage]?

2022-12-04 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Sun, 4 Dec 2022 05:29:58 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: >I wish to document a personal project.The desired format will resemble >the outline for term papers we wrote in school in the 50's. Except >some items may be a short paragraph or two long. > >I did a web search for text editors with an

Re: Detailed Leafpad manual [not just manpage]?

2022-12-04 Thread David Wright
On Sun 04 Dec 2022 at 05:29:58 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > I wish to document a personal project.The desired format will resemble > the outline for term papers we wrote in school in the 50's. Except > some items may be a short paragraph or two long. Tragically I missed out on a US education,

Re: Detailed Leafpad manual [not just manpage]?

2022-12-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 4 Dec 2022 12:56:57 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > Might I suggest gedit or similar. Or even emacs or vim :) In Emacs' case (and probably in vim's) there may well be a mode that will do what the OP wants. Text mode will maintain auto-indentation for you. Also, look into outline mode

Re: Detailed Leafpad manual [not just manpage]?

2022-12-04 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-12-04 at 07:56, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Dec 04, 2022 at 05:29:58AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> I wish to document a personal project.The desired format will >> resemble the outline for term papers we wrote in school in the >> 50's. Except some items may be a short

Re: Detailed Leafpad manual [not just manpage]?

2022-12-04 Thread jeremy ardley
On 4/12/22 20:56, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, Dec 04, 2022 at 05:29:58AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to document a personal project.The desired format will resemble the outline for term papers we wrote in school in the 50's. Except some items may be a short paragraph or two long.

Re: Detailed Leafpad manual [not just manpage]?

2022-12-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 04, 2022 at 05:29:58AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I wish to document a personal project.The desired format will resemble the > outline for term papers we wrote in school in the 50's. Except some items > may be a short paragraph or two long. > > I did a web search for text editors