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Automatic Indenting
After the input of a line the cursor is positioned again for the next
one. The default setting of the editor is not always the first column
but that column, which has been the first non-empty column in the line
before. The "line before" is the current line when starting the input
mode and it is the line put in just before during the input mode. The
indent column is also kept when empty lines are put in. The automatic
indenting is especially beneficial when entering programs.
You may control the indenting with the command
It specifies if automatic indenting should occur or not. Furthermore you
can specify if the indent column should
depend on the previous line as described or if it should have a fixed
value. More details on the syntax you can find in
the corresponding part of the section
The Commands.
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