How to make indentation follow beginning of text in list

Question

I want electric-indent or more generally, hitting ENT, to indent the new line to the beginning of text. I'd like this to work with auto-fill as well.

Before:

1. This is a long list item that I'll wrap at 50
chars. This is what happens.
2. Next item.

After:

1. This is a long list item that I'll wrap at 50
   chars. This is what I want.
2. Next item.

I'd even accept a solution that let's me fix this after the fact, meaning I'm okay with highlighting the region and entering a command that indents it the way I want. Something built-in preferred.

What is the buffer's major mode? – Phil Hudson Mar 24 '22 at 20:08 — Phil Hudson, Mar 24 '22 at 20:08
Major mode: `text-mode`. – young_souvlaki Apr 22 '22 at 16:36 — young_souvlaki, Apr 22 '22 at 16:36

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 22 '22 at 22:22

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What you want is either outline-mode or org-mode, both of which will give you this behavior.

answered Apr 22 '22 at 22:22

Phil Hudson

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Interesting, I never tried `outline-mode`. Will give it a shot! – young_souvlaki Apr 28 '22 at 17:17
Does not work as expected. Same behavior as `text-mode`. – young_souvlaki Jun 03 '22 at 14:37

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 20 '22 at 19:52

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In markdown-mode, auto-fill will indent as desired.

It also has convenient functions for adding a new list item (markdown-insert-list-item) and re-numbering a list (markdown-cleanup-list-numbers), while staying very close to text-mode.

answered Jul 20 '22 at 19:52

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How to make indentation follow beginning of text in list

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