fill-indented-paragraph

Fill paragraph preserving indentation.

This command fills the current paragraph, so that each line but the last becomes as long as possible without going past the fill column. It tries to preserve any indentation before each line of the paragraph. In detail, it finds the line in the paragraph with the least amount of indentation (not counting the first line, whose indentation is always preserved), and preserves indentation to the left of that column, filling the text to the right of that column.

With a numeric argument, it fills the paragraph using the current column as the right margin, instead of the margin-right variable.

With a highlighted region, it fills each paragraph in the region.

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