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How do I tell Emacs to automatically indent a new line to the indentation of the previous line?

April 26, 2017automatically Emacs indent indentation line previous

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How do I tell Emacs to automatically indent a new line to the indentation of the previous line?

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Put (setq indent-line-function ‘indent-relative-maybe) in your `.emacs’. Then C-j will automatically indent the next line to the indentation of the previous line, except for some modes that re-binds `indent-line-function’.