Text mode

This is the most basic mode for editing English-style text in. The main difference over generic-mode and is that words are allowed to contain underscores and there are some extra commands,

Meta-s

Centres the current line. The position of the fill-column is used to calculate the centre of the line. For more information on the fill-column variable see section Fill mode.

Meta-S

Centres the current paragraph.

Command: text-mode

Major mode for editing English text.

Hook: text-mode-hook

Evaluated when text-mode is invoked. Variants of text-mode also use this hook.

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