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emacs: Text Mode

 
 25.8 Text Mode
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 Text mode is a major mode for editing files of text in a human language.
 Files which have names ending in the extension ‘.txt’ are usually opened
 in Text mode (Choosing Modes).  To explicitly switch to Text
 mode, type ‘M-x text-mode’.
 
    In Text mode, only blank lines and page delimiters separate
 paragraphs.  As a result, paragraphs can be indented, and adaptive
 filling determines what indentation to use when filling a paragraph.
 Adaptive Fill.
 
    In Text mode, the <TAB> (‘indent-for-tab-command’) command usually
 inserts whitespace up to the next tab stop, instead of indenting the
 current line.  Indentation, for details.
 
    Text mode turns off the features concerned with comments except when
 you explicitly invoke them.  It changes the syntax table so that
 apostrophes are considered part of words (e.g., ‘don't’ is considered
 one word).  However, if a word starts with an apostrophe, it is treated
 as a prefix for the purposes of capitalization (e.g., ‘M-c’ converts
 ‘'hello'’ into ‘'Hello'’, as expected).
 
    If you indent the first lines of paragraphs, then you should use
 Paragraph-Indent Text mode (‘M-x paragraph-indent-text-mode’) rather
 than Text mode.  In that mode, you do not need to have blank lines
 between paragraphs, because the first-line indentation is sufficient to
 start a paragraph; however paragraphs in which every line is indented
 are not supported.  Use ‘M-x paragraph-indent-minor-mode’ to enable an
 equivalent minor mode for situations where you shouldn’t change the
 major mode—in mail composition, for instance.
 
    Text mode binds ‘M-<TAB>’ to ‘ispell-complete-word’.  This command
 performs completion of the partial word in the buffer before point,
 using the spelling dictionary as the space of possible words.  
 Spelling.  If your window manager defines ‘M-<TAB>’ to switch windows,
 you can type ‘<ESC> <TAB>’ or ‘C-M-i’ instead.
 
    Entering Text mode runs the mode hook ‘text-mode-hook’ (Major
 Modes).
 
    The following sections describe several major modes that are
 “derived” from Text mode.  These derivatives share most of the features
 of Text mode described above.  In particular, derivatives of Text mode
 run ‘text-mode-hook’ prior to running their own mode hooks.
 

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